Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 17

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, I · What happens: answer, speak, not be · To what, where: bride, waiting maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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, I), 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	fixed
13	before	before	ADP	_	16 Drink	case
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Drink	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Drink	punct
16	Drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 haughtily	obl
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	11 haughtily	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	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the maid		bride		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	past	the maid not said here			haughtily property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	shall	I	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: «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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