The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 9

‘I am tired of living with a miser who will not give me enough to eat and drink,’ said he, ‘and I am ready to do all you want.’

Who acts: I, miser, minister, you · What happens: be, live, not give, eat, drink, say · To what, where: me, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, miser, minister, you), 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	_	4 tired	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 living	mark
6	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 miser	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 miser	det
9	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 living	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 give	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 give	advmod
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 miser	acl:relcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 give	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 give	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drink	cc
19	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 eat	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 he	punct
25	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ready	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 ready	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ready	cop
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ready	xcomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 do	obj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 want	nsubj
34	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 all	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			tired property	tree rules
2	live	gerund	I not said here			with a miser	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with miser=Location
3	not give	future	a miser		me	enough property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive	a miser not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	infinitive	a miser not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	minister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	I			ready property	tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
9	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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