Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 25

‘Thou hast shaved many a poor soul close enough,’ said the other; ‘thou art only meeting thy reward’: so he played up another tune.

Who acts: other, sake, thy · What happens: shave, say, meet, play up, reward · To what, where: Thou, reward, tune · 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 (other, sake, thy), 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	_	4 shaved	punct
2	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 shaved	nsubj:pass
3	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shaved	aux:pass
4	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shaved	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soul	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soul	amod
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 many	appos
9	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soul	amod
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 close	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shaved	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 shaved	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 art	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 art	punct
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 art	nsubj
19	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 meeting	advmod
21	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 art	xcomp
22	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 reward	nmod:poss
23	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meeting	obj
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 reward	punct
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 played	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 played	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 played	nsubj
28	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 played	compound:prt
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 tune	det
31	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 played	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shave	present · passive		Thou	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	meet	gerund	the other not said here	thy reward	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Co-Agent
4	play up	past	sake	another tune	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
5	reward		thy		nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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