Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 140

The second day she began with all the comical names she could hear of, BANDY-LEGS, HUNCHBACK, CROOK-SHANKS, and so on; but the little gentleman still said to every one of them, ‘Madam, that is not my name.’

Who acts: name, little gentleman, that · What happens: begin, hear, say, not be · To what, where: BANDY LEGS, comical names, one, 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 (name, little gentleman, that), 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	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 names	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 names	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 names	det
9	comical	comical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 names	amod
10	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	obl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 names	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 hear	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 LEGS	punct
16	BANDY	BANDY	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 LEGS	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 BANDY	punct
18	LEGS	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 HUNCHBACK	punct
20	HUNCHBACK	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 LEGS	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 SHANKS	punct
22	CROOK	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 SHANKS	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 CROOK	punct
24	SHANKS	shank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 LEGS	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 on	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 on	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 on	advmod
28	on	on	ADV	_	5 began	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gentleman	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 gentleman	amod
33	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
34	still	still	ADV	_	35 said	advmod
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 one	case
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 one	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Madam	punct
42	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 Madam	punct
43	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 name	punct
45	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 name	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 name	cop
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 name	advmod
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 name	nmod:poss
49	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Madam	appos
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 name	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	43 Madam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	name	BANDY LEGS and HUNCHBACK and CROOK SHANKS		day	with all comical names	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with name=Subeventuality
2	hear	could	name	all comical names not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the little gentleman		every one of SHANKS	still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
4	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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