Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 39

‘See,’ said she, ‘I have bought all these with your yellow buttons: but I did not touch them myself; the pedlars went themselves and dug them up.’

Who acts: Frederick, I, pedlars · What happens: see, say, buy, not touch, go, dig up · To what, where: these, buttons · 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 (Frederick, I, pedlars), 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	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bought	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 bought	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bought	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bought	aux
11	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 these	det:predet
13	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 bought	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 buttons	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 buttons	nmod:poss
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 buttons	amod
17	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bought	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 touch	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 touch	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 touch	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 touch	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 touch	advmod
23	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 touch	obj
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 touch	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pedlars	det
28	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
30	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 went	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dug	cc
32	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dug	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 dug	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Frederick			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	buy	present · perfect	I	these	with your yellow buttons	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
4	not touch	past · do-support	I	buttons = button		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer myself=Result
5	go	past	the pedlars	buttons = button		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
6	dig up	past	the pedlars not said here	buttons = button		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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