Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 67

‘Very well,’ answered she, ‘I’ll carry the door; but I’ll not carry the nuts and vinegar bottle also--that would be too much of a load; so if you please, I’ll fasten them to the door.’

Who acts: I, that, you · What happens: answer, carry, not carry, be, fasten · To what, where: wife, door, nuts

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 (I, that, 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 answered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carry	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 carry	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 carry	nsubj
11	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 carry	aux
12	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carry	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 carry	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 carry	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 carry	nsubj
18	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 carry	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 carry	advmod
20	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 carry	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nuts	det
22	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carry	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bottle	cc
24	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bottle	compound
25	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nuts	conj
26	also	also	ADV	_	20 carry	advmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 much	punct
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 much	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 much	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 much	cop
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 carry	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 load	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 load	det
35	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 much	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 fasten	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	44 fasten	advmod
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 fasten	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 fasten	nsubj
40	please	please	INTJ	_	44 fasten	discourse
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 please	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 fasten	nsubj
43	’ll	'll	ADV	_	44 fasten	advmod
44	fasten	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 fasten	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 door	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 door	det
48	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 fasten	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			wife	well property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	carry	future	I	the door			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
3	not carry	future	I	the nuts and vinegar bottle			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
4	is	would	that			of a load; much property	tree rules
5	fasten	present	you	nuts = nut		to the door; 'll property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to door=Co-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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