Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 32

I have bought them, Fred," said she, "with the yellow counters which lay under the cow's stall; but I did not dig them up myself; the pedlars did that."

Who acts: I, Fred, yellow counters, pedlars · What happens: buy, say, lie, not dig up, do · To what, where: decorations, stall, that · 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 (I, Fred, yellow counters, pedlars), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bought	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	aux
3	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bought	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Fred	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Fred	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	conj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 she	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 counters	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 counters	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 counters	det
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 counters	amod
16	counters	counter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 she	conj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 counters	acl:relcl
19	under	under	ADP	_	23 stall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cow	det
21	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stall	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 cow	case
23	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 dig	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 dig	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 dig	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 dig	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 dig	advmod
29	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bought	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dig	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 dig	compound:prt
32	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	29 dig	obl:unmarked
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 did	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pedlars	det
35	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 did	nsubj
36	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	conj
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 did	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	buy	present · perfect	I	decorations = decoration			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Fred				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	lie	past	the yellow counters		the cow's stall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stall=Location
4	not dig up	past · do-support	I	decorations = decoration		myself obl:unmarked	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	do	past	the pedlars	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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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