Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 103
No," replied the father, "he is the apple of my eye, and all the money in the world cannot buy him from me."
Who acts: Father, money · What happens: reply, be, not buy · To what, where: father, apple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, money), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 replied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 apple | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 apple | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 apple | det |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 eye | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eye | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 apple | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 buy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 buy | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 money | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 money | det |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 buy | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 money | nmod |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 buy | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 buy | advmod |
| 26 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 buy | iobj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 buy | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 buy | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Father | the apple | of my eye | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not buy | can | all money in the world | Father | from me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from i=Source |
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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