Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 62

He answered: ‘I sold my cow’s skin in the town, for three hundred talers.’

Who acts: wealth, I · What happens: answer, sell · To what, where: skin, town · 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 (wealth, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 sold	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 sold	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sold	nsubj
6	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	ccomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cow	nmod:poss
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skin	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 cow	case
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 talers	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 talers	case
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hundred	compound
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 talers	nummod
18	talers	taler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sold	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	wealth						tree rules
2	sell	past	I	my cow's skin		the town			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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