Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 30

Now he had a good deal of gold in the house: so he said to Catherine, ‘What pretty yellow buttons these are!

Who acts: husband, yellow buttons · What happens: have, say, be, deal · To what, where: good deal, Catherine, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, yellow buttons), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gold	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Catherine	case
17	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 What	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 What	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 said	ccomp
21	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	22 yellow	advmod
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 buttons	amod
23	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 What	nsubj
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 What	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 What	cop
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	husband	a good deal of gold in the house		now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	husband		Catherine		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to catherine=Recipient
3	is a	present	yellow buttons				tree rules
4	deal			gold in the house			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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