Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 34

‘Oh dear me, I should like to buy very much, but I have no money: if you had any use for yellow buttons, I might deal with you.’

Who acts: me, I, you · What happens: like, buy, have, deal · To what, where: money, use

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 (me, I, you), 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	_	4 me	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 dear	discourse
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 me	amod
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 buy	mark
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	xcomp
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	10 buy	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 like	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 money	det
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 like	parataxis
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 use	det
24	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 buttons	case
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 buttons	amod
27	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 use	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 deal	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 deal	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 deal	aux
31	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 like	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 deal	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	should	me			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here			vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	I	no money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	you	any use	for yellow buttons	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Patient
5	deal	might	I		with you	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with you=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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