Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 136

‘This is not the true bride,’ said he to the father; ‘have you no other daughters?’

Who acts: This, true bride, you · What happens: not be, say, have · To what, where: true bride, other daughters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, true bride, 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	_	7 bride	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bride	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bride	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bride	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bride	det
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bride	amod
7	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bride	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 bride	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 father	det
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 daughters	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 daughters	amod
21	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	This	the true bride		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the true bride		to the father	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to father=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	have	present	you	no other daughters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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