Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 61

‘Never mind,’ he said, ‘I have larger maps upstairs in the cupboard, we will look on those,’ but they searched in vain, for the castle was not marked even on these.

Who acts: man, I, we, towns · What happens: not mind, say, have, look, search, not mark · To what, where: larger maps, cupboard, vain, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, we, towns), 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	_	3 mind	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 mind	advmod
3	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
12	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 maps	amod
13	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
14	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	11 have	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cupboard	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cupboard	det
17	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 look	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 look	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 look	aux
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 those	case
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 look	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 those	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 look	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 searched	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 searched	nsubj
28	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 vain	case
30	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 searched	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 marked	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 marked	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 castle	det
34	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 marked	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 marked	aux:pass
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 marked	advmod
37	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 searched	conj
38	even	even	ADV	_	40 these	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 these	case
40	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 marked	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not mind	infinitive					vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	larger maps	the cupboard	upstairs property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient
4	look	future	we			on those	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on that=Theme
5	search	past	towns = town		vain		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location
6	not mark	past · passive		the castle			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme this=Attribute

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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