Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 80
On hearing this, the man said, ‘I will give you something in exchange for those three things; not money, for that I have not got, but something that is of far more value.
Who acts: man, I, that · What happens: hear, say, give, not get, be · To what, where: this, something, you, exchange, money · 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, that), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 exchange | case |
| 16 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 things | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 things | det |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 things | nummod |
| 20 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 give | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 money | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 money | advmod |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 got | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 got | obl |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 got | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 got | advmod |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 money | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 something | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 something | cc |
| 33 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 money | conj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 value | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 value | cop |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 value | case |
| 37 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 more | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 value | amod |
| 39 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 something | parataxis |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the man not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | future | I | something | you | exchange | for that three things | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme for thing=Asset | |
| 4 | not get | present · perfect | I | money not said here | for money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for that=Source | |||
| 5 | is | present | that | of more value | 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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