Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 66

But the people said ‘No,’ unless he would bestow all his money upon the rascals and buy their liberty.

Who acts: people, man · What happens: say, bestow, buy · To what, where: money, liberty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, man), 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 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 No	punct
6	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 No	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 No	punct
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	12 bestow	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bestow	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 bestow	aux
12	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 money	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 money	nmod:poss
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bestow	obj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 rascals	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rascals	det
18	rascals	rascal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bestow	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 buy	cc
20	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bestow	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 liberty	nmod:poss
22	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 buy	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the people			tree rules
2	bestow a condition, not said to happen	would	man	man's money	upon the rascals	tree rules
3	buy	present	man not said here	people's liberty		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liberty=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: «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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