Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 44

Then the butcher gave him a flask of ale, saying, ‘There, drink and refresh yourself; your cow will give you no milk: don’t you see she is an old beast, good for nothing but the slaughter-house?’

Who acts: butcher, cow, you · What happens: give, say, drink, refresh, not do, see · To what, where: flask, Hans, yourself, milk, you, old beast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butcher, cow, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 butcher	det
3	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 give	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flask	det
7	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 ale	case
9	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flask	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gave	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drink	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 drink	punct
14	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 drink	expl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drink	punct
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 saying	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 refresh	cc
18	refresh	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 drink	conj
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 refresh	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cow	nmod:poss
22	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 milk	det
27	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
29	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 give	parataxis
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 do	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
32	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 do	advcl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 beast	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 beast	cop
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 beast	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 beast	amod
37	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 good	punct
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 beast	amod
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 nothing	case
41	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	39 good	obl
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 house	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 house	det
44	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 house	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 slaughter	punct
46	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 nothing	conj
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	the butcher	a flask of ale	Hans		then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient flask=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the butcher not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	drink	infinitive				there		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	refresh	infinitive		yourself				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer
5	give	future	your cow	no milk	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient milk=Theme
6	not do	infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	see	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	present	cow	a old beast				tree rules

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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