Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 53
The Huntsman replied, "I cannot and yet must tell you." "
Who acts: Huntsman · What happens: reply, tell · To what, where: you · 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 (Huntsman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Huntsman | det |
| 2 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 can | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 can | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 yet | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 not | conj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Huntsman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | must | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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