Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 139

The next day the little man came, and she began with TIMOTHY, ICHABOD, BENJAMIN, JEREMIAH, and all the names she could remember; but to all and each of them he said, ‘Madam, that is not my name.’

Who acts: little man, queen, names, man, that · What happens: come, begin, remember, say, not be · To what, where: Madam, name · 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 (little man, queen, names, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 TIMOTHY	case
13	TIMOTHY	TIMOTHY	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 began	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ICHABOD	punct
15	ICHABOD	ICHABOD	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 TIMOTHY	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 BENJAMIN	punct
17	BENJAMIN	BENJAMIN	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 TIMOTHY	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 JEREMIAH	punct
19	JEREMIAH	JEREMIAH	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 TIMOTHY	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 remember	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 remember	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 names	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 names	det
24	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 remember	nsubj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remember	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 remember	aux
27	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	parataxis
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 said	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 each	cc
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 all	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 each	nmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Madam	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 Madam	punct
40	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 name	punct
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 name	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 name	cop
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 name	advmod
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 name	nmod:poss
46	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 Madam	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the little man		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	queen			with TIMOTHY and ICHABOD and BENJAMIN and JEREMIAH	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with timothy=Subeventuality
3	remember	could	all names				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	man	Madam and my name			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not is a	present	that	my name			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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