Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 48
‘Not wretch enough yet!’ said the sparrow; ‘thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life yet!’ and away she flew.
Who acts: wretch, cruelty · What happens: say, cost, fly · To what, where: sparrow, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretch, cruelty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wretch | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 wretch | advmod |
| 3 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 yet | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 wretch | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wretch | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wretch | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sparrow | det |
| 10 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cost | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 cost | punct |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 cruelty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cost | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cost | aux |
| 16 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 cost | obj |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cost | obj |
| 20 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 cost | advmod |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 cost | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 cost | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flew | cc |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 flew | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wretch | the sparrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cost | shall | thy cruelty | thee | yet | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme thou=Beneficiary life=Value | |||
| 3 | fly | past | wretch | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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