Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 50
‘Well,’ said the butcher, ‘I don’t like to say no, when one is asked to do a kind, neighbourly thing.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: say, not like, ask, do · To what, where: butcher, one, kind · 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 (I, one), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 butcher | det |
| 7 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 like | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 like | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | xcomp |
| 16 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 asked | advmod |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 asked | aux:pass |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 like | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 asked | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 kind | det |
| 25 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thing | punct |
| 27 | neighbourly | neighbourly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 thing | amod |
| 28 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kind | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the butcher | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | one not said here | a kind and neighbourly thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality |
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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