Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 17

Dummerly said, "I have nothing but dry bread and sour beer; if that will do for you, we will sit down and eat it together."

Who acts: Dummerly, that, we · What happens: say, have, do, sit down, eat · To what, where: nothing, beer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummerly, that, we), 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	Dummerly	Dummerly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 have	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 bread	cc
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bread	amod
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beer	cc
12	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beer	amod
13	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 do	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sit	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 do	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sit	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sit	aux
24	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sit	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eat	cc
27	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sit	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 eat	obj
29	together	together	ADV	_	27 eat	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dummerly			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	Dummerly	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	that		for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down in a quote	future	we			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat in a quote	present	we not said here	beer	together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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