Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 38

‘Why not?’ answered the peasant: ‘but he only says four things, and the fifth he keeps to himself.’

Who acts: raven, fifth · What happens: not answer, say, keep · To what, where: peasant, four things, raven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, fifth), 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 answered	advmod
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 answered	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 not	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 says	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	nsubj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 says	advmod
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 things	nummod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 says	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 keeps	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 keeps	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fifth	det
20	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keeps	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keeps	nsubj
22	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 keeps	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past			the peasant	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peasant=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	raven	four things		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	keep	present	the fifth		raven	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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