Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 123

Money enough," he replied, "but your balls are not quite round"; so saying he took up the skulls, and, placing them on his lathe, turned them round. "

Who acts: man, balls · What happens: reply, not be, say, take up, place, turn · To what, where: skulls, lathe · 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 (man, balls), 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	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	ccomp
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Money	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 round	cc
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 balls	nmod:poss
11	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 round	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 round	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 round	advmod
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 round	advmod
15	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 replied	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 round	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 saying	advmod
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 replied	advcl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	ccomp
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 skulls	det
24	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 turned	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 turned	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 placing	punct
28	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 turned	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 placing	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 lathe	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lathe	nmod:poss
32	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 placing	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 turned	punct
34	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 turned	obj
36	round	round	ADV	_	34 turned	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	man				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	your balls			round property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take up in a quote	past	man	the skulls			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme
5	place in a quote	gerund		skulls = skull	man's lathe		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on lathe=Destination
6	turn in a quote	past	man not said here	skulls = skull		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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