Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 65
‘Nay,’ said the bird, ‘I do not sing twice for nothing.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, not sing · To what, where: bird · Speech: someone speaks here
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 said | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sing | 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 | 5 said | conj |
| 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||||
| 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 |
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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