Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 137

‘No,’ said he; ‘there is only a little dirty Ashputtel here, the child of my first wife; I am sure she cannot be the bride.’

Who acts: prince, I, bride · What happens: say, be, not be · To what, where: little dirty Ashputtel, bride · 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 (prince, I, bride), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
11	only	only	ADV	_	15 Ashputtel	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Ashputtel	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Ashputtel	amod
14	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Ashputtel	amod
15	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 is	obl
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 is	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 child	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 wife	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
22	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 wife	amod
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 child	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sure	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sure	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sure	cop
27	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bride	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bride	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 bride	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 bride	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bride	det
33	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sure	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	be	present		a little dirty Ashputtel	here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
4	not is a	can	bride	the bride			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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