Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 6
One day he said to her, ‘You have not yet paid me a visit, although we have been betrothed for some time.’
Who acts: man, You · What happens: say, not pay, betroth · To what, where: miller, me, we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, You), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 paid | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 paid | punct |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 paid | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 paid | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 paid | advmod |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 paid | advmod |
| 13 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 paid | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 visit | det |
| 16 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paid | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 betrothed | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 betrothed | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 betrothed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 betrothed | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 22 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 paid | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 betrothed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | miller | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not pay | present | You | me | yet | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient visit=Asset | |||
| 3 | betroth | present · perfect · passive | we | time | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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