Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 118
I did not bargain for that," said the youth; "the bench is mine."
Who acts: I, bench · What happens: not bargain, say, be · To what, where: youth, mine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bench), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bargain | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bargain | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bargain | advmod |
| 4 | bargain | bargain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bargain | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bargain | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 mine | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 mine | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bench | det |
| 15 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mine | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mine | cop |
| 17 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bargain | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bargain | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bargain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bargain | past · do-support | I | for that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the bench | mine | 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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