Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 58

"A soldier and a coward!" replied the other, "that cannot be; you may put me to any proof."

Who acts: soldier, that, you · What happens: reply, not be, put · To what, where: other, soldier · 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 (soldier, that, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 coward	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coward	det
6	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldier	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 coward	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 coward	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 put	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 be	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 be	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 be	advmod
17	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 proof	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 proof	det
25	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	a soldier and a coward	the other			tree rules
2	not can in a quote	can	that				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put in a quote	may	you		a soldier and a coward = soldier	to any proof	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal

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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