Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 103

‘Well,’ said they, ‘you are come back, and we will not sell you again for all the riches in the world.’

Who acts: cows, we · What happens: say, come back, not sell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cows, we), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux:pass
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	parataxis
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sell	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sell	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sell	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sell	advmod
18	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sell	iobj
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 sell	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 riches	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 riches	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 riches	det
24	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sell	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 riches	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	cows = cow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come back	present · passive		you				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	not sell	future	we		you	again	for all riches in the world	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme for rich=Asset

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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