Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 5

‘If that be all,’ answered the sparrow, ‘come with me into the next town, and I will soon find you plenty of food.’

Who acts: all, I · What happens: answer, come, find · To what, where: sparrow, next town, you

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 (all, I), 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	_	8 answered	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 all	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 all	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 all	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	19 town	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 town	amod
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 find	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 find	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 find	aux
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 find	advmod
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 find	obj
27	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 find	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 food	case
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plenty	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	all	the sparrow			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Eventuality
2	come	infinitive	all not said here		the next town	with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
3	find	future	I	you		soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme plenty=Attribute

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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