Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 33

‘No, you gave it me for playing a tune to you.’ said the countryman; but the judge told him that was not likely, and cut the matter short by ordering him off to the gallows.

Who acts: you, countryman, judge, that · What happens: give, play, say, tell, not be, cut · To what, where: tale, me, tune, you, countryman, matter · 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 (you, countryman, judge, that), 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 gave	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 gave	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	obj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 playing	mark
9	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gave	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tune	det
11	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 playing	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 playing	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 countryman	det
18	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 judge	det
22	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 likely	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 likely	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 likely	advmod
28	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 told	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cut	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cut	cc
31	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 told	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cut	obj
34	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cut	xcomp
35	by	by	SCONJ	_	36 ordering	mark
36	ordering	order	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 cut	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 ordering	obj
38	off	off	ADP	_	36 ordering	compound:prt
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 gallows	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 gallows	det
41	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ordering	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	you	tale	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Theme
2	play	gerund	you not said here	a tune	you		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the countryman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	the judge		countryman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not is	past	that			likely property	tree rules
6	cut	infinitive		the matter		short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset matter=Product
7	order off	gerund			judge	to the gallows	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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