Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 27
When the countryman saw so much money, he said, ‘I will agree to your proposal.’
Who acts: countryman, I, your · What happens: see, say, agree, propose · To what, where: much money · 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 (countryman, I, your), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 countryman | det |
| 3 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 money | amod |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 agree | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 agree | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 agree | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 agree | aux |
| 15 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 proposal | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 18 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 agree | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 agree | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the countryman | much money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | countryman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | future | I | to your proposal | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | propose | your | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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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