Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 50

But the sparrow sat on the outside of the window, and cried ‘Carter! thy cruelty shall cost thee thy life!’

Who acts: sparrow, cruelty · What happens: sit, cry, cost · To what, where: outside, Carter, 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 (sparrow, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 outside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 outside	det
7	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outside	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cried	cc
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Carter	punct
15	Carter	Carter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Carter	punct
17	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 cruelty	nmod:poss
18	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cost	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 cost	aux
20	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cried	ccomp
21	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 cost	obj
22	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cost	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past	the sparrow		the outside of the window	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on outside=Location
2	cry speech: express	past	the sparrow not said here	Carter		tree rules
3	cost	shall	thy cruelty	thee		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme thou=Beneficiary life=Value

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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