Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 34

They were not counters, but bright gold, which was all the property we possessed: you should not have done so."

Who acts: pedlars, bright gold, we, you · What happens: not be, be, possess, not do · To what, where: counters, property

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 (pedlars, bright gold, we, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 counters	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 counters	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 counters	advmod
4	counters	counter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 gold	cc
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gold	amod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 counters	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 property	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 property	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 property	cop
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 property	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 property	det
14	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gold	appos
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 possessed	nsubj
16	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 property	acl:relcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 done	advmod
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 counters	acl
23	so	so	ADV	_	22 done	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	past	pedlars = pedlar	counters but bright gold	tree rules
2	is a	past	bright gold	all property	tree rules
3	possess	past	we	all property not said here	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot property=Theme
4	not do	should · perfect	you	counters but bright gold not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counter=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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