Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 28
I never heard the name in my life, I’ll wager anything it is not in the calendar!’
Who acts: I, name · What happens: not hear, wager, not be · To what, where: name, life, anything, calendar
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, name), 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 | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 heard | advmod |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wager | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wager | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wager | aux |
| 12 | wager | wager | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 wager | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 calendar | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 calendar | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 calendar | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 calendar | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 calendar | det |
| 19 | calendar | calendar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 anything | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 wager | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 wager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past | I | the name | my life | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wager | future | I | anything | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | name | the calendar | 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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