Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 24

Ah, good people," said Catherine, "I have no money, and cannot buy anything, but if you can make use of yellow counters I will buy them."

Who acts: Catherine, I, you · What happens: say, have, not buy, make, buy, use · To what, where: money, anything, use, people, yellow counters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, I, 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ah	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 money	det
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 buy	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 buy	cc
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 buy	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 buy	advmod
19	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	conj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 buy	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 make	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
27	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 counters	case
29	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 counters	amod
30	counters	counter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 use	nmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 buy	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 buy	aux
33	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 use	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 buy	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Catherine		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	I	no money	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	not buy	can	I not said here	anything	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
4	make a condition, not said to happen	can	you	use of yellow counters	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
5	buy	future	I	people	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	use			yellow counters	nom use «act transitive»: of=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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