Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 58

‘How can you say so?’ said she; ‘I am sure you never told me not.’

Who acts: you, goose, I · What happens: say, be, not tell · To what, where: me · 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 (you, goose, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sure	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	cop
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 told	advmod
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 told	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	goose			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I		sure property	tree rules
4	not tell speech: assert	past	you	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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