Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 52

‘And if I had not sewn the boat together again,’ said the tailor, ‘you would all have been drowned, therefore she is mine.’

Who acts: I, princess · What happens: not sew, say, drown, be · To what, where: boat, tailor, you, mine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, princess), 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	_	7 sewn	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 sewn	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 sewn	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sewn	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sewn	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sewn	advmod
7	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boat	det
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sewn	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	7 sewn	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	7 sewn	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sewn	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tailor	det
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drowned	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 drowned	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 drowned	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 drowned	aux
21	all	all	ADV	_	24 drowned	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 drowned	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 drowned	aux:pass
24	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mine	punct
26	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	29 mine	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mine	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 mine	cop
29	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 drowned	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not sew a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	the boat	again	together property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Product
2	say speech: assert	past		the tailor			tree rules
3	drown	would · perfect · passive		you		all property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is a	present	princess	mine		therefore property	tree rules

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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