Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 104

‘Nay,’ answered the bird, ‘I do not sing twice for nothing; give me that millstone, and I will sing it again.’

Who acts: I · What happens: answer, not sing, give, sing · To what, where: bird, millstone, me

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 answered	punct
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nay	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sing	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 sing	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sing	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sing	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 sing	advmod
13	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 sing	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 nothing	case
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 sing	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sing	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 millstone	mark
21	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sing	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 sing	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 sing	aux
26	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sing	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 sing	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sing	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	I not said here		the bird			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
2	not sing speech: express	present · do-support	I				for nothing; twice property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for nothing=Recipient
3	give	infinitive	I not said here	millstone	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient millstone=Theme
4	sing speech: express	future	I	millstone		again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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