Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 55

‘No,’ cried he, ‘that is letting her off too easily: she shall die a much more cruel death; I will eat her.’

Who acts: that, sparrow, I · What happens: cry, let off, die, eat · To what, where: cruelty, sparrow, cruel death

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 (that, sparrow, 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 letting	punct
8	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	11 letting	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 letting	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 letting	aux
11	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 letting	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	11 letting	compound:prt
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 easily	advmod
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	11 letting	advmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 die	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 die	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 die	aux
19	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 death	det
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 cruel	advmod
23	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 death	amod
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 die	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 eat	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		cruelty		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	let off	present · progressive	that	sparrow	easily property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	die	shall	sparrow	a cruel death		tree rules
4	eat	future	I	sparrow		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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