--- title: Then he looked around him, and said, ‘I wish I had something to eat,… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he looked around him, and said, ‘I wish I had something to eat, if not I shall be worse off than before; for here I see neither apples nor pears, nor any kind of fruits, nothing but vegetables.’ Who acts: cloud, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:56:39 # text = Then he looked around him, and said, ‘I wish I had something to eat, if not I shall be worse off than before; for here I see neither apples nor pears, nor any kind of fruits, nothing but vegetables.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 around around ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 parataxis _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 before before ADV RB _ 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 obl _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 33 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 34 cc:preconj _ _ 34 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 36 cc _ _ 36 pears pear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 40 cc _ _ 39 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 40 det _ _ 40 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 40 nmod _ _ 45 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 vegetables vegetable NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | cloud | | | | then | around huntsman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | cloud *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wish** | present | I | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | I | something | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | shall | I | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **see** | present | I | apples nor pears | | | | any kind of fruits nothing *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/40/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)