Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 14
But the maid answered her, and even spoke more haughtily than before, "Drink if you will, but I shall not be your waiting-maid."
Who acts: maid · What happens: answer, speak, not be · To what, where: Pray, waiting maid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maid | det |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoke | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spoke | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 spoke | advmod |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 haughtily | advmod |
| 11 | haughtily | haughtily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spoke | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 haughtily | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Drink | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Drink | punct |
| 16 | Drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 haughtily | conj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 will | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 will | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 Drink | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 maid | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 maid | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 maid | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 maid | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 maid | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 maid | cop |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 maid | nmod:poss |
| 27 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 maid | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 waiting | punct |
| 29 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 maid | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 maid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the maid | Pray | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the maid not said here | haughtily property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | shall | the maid = maid | your waiting maid | tree rules |
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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