Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 49
The carter seeing that he had thus lost all that he had, went down into his kitchen; and was still not sorry for what he had done, but sat himself angrily and sulkily in the chimney corner.
Who acts: carter, cruelty · What happens: see, lose, have, go down, not be, do · To what, where: all, kitchen, cruelty, chimney corner
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 (carter, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 carter | det |
| 2 | carter | carter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 carter | acl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lost | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 lost | advmod |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seeing | advcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 lost | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 kitchen | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sorry | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sorry | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sorry | cop |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 sorry | advmod |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 sorry | advmod |
| 24 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 what | case |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sorry | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 done | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sat | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 sat | cc |
| 32 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sorry | parataxis |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 sat | obj |
| 34 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 32 sat | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sulkily | cc |
| 36 | sulkily | sulkily | ADV | _ | 34 angrily | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 corner | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 corner | det |
| 39 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 corner | compound |
| 40 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sat | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the carter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | cruelty | all | thus property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | have | past | cruelty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go down | past | cruelty not said here | cruelty's kitchen | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 5 | not is | past | the carter | still | sorry property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | cruelty | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | sit | past | cruelty | the chimney corner | angrily property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in corner=Location |
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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