Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 70

"Certainly," answered Reynard, "you are not a bit better than nothing at all, you don't in the least satisfy me; make me a promise, that I shall have the hens in your father's yard, and you shall regain your liberty."

Who acts: Reynard, you, least · What happens: answer, not be, not do, satisfy, make, have · To what, where: Reynard, promise, hens, liberty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Reynard, you, least), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 answered	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Reynard	Reynard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 better	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 better	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 better	obl:unmarked
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 answered	parataxis
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 nothing	case
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 better	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 nothing	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 do	nsubj
21	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 do	advmod
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 satisfy	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 least	det
25	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 satisfy	nsubj
26	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 do	advcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 satisfy	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
29	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 satisfy	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 make	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 promise	det
32	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 have	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 have	nsubj
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 have	aux
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 make	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hens	det
39	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 have	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 yard	case
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 father	nmod:poss
42	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 yard	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 father	case
44	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hens	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 regain	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 regain	cc
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 regain	nsubj
48	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 regain	aux
49	regain	regain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	parataxis
50	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 liberty	nmod:poss
51	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 regain	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 regain	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 regain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Reynard			certainly property	tree rules
2	not is in a quote	present	you			than nothing; a bit obl:unmarked; good property	tree rules
3	not do in a quote	present	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	satisfy in a quote	infinitive	the least	Reynard			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
5	make in a quote	infinitive	the least not said here	a promise	Reynard		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary promise=Product
6	have in a quote	shall	Reynard	the hens		in your father's yard	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient
7	regain in a quote	shall	you	your liberty			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme

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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