Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 14

The man assured her again that he would on no account touch a thing to eat or drink.

Who acts: man · What happens: assure, touch, eat, drink · To what, where: woman, thing

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assured	nsubj
3	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assured	iobj
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 assured	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 touch	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 touch	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 touch	aux
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 account	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 account	det
11	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touch	obl
12	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 assured	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 touch	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thing	acl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 drink	cc
18	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 eat	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	assure	past	the man		woman	again		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	touch	would	man	a thing			on no account	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thing=Experiencer on account=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	man not said here	a thing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive	man not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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