Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 49

‘To be sure,’ answered he; ‘I have two heads of it with me, and will give you one’; so he opened his bag and gave them the bad.

Who acts: I, Countryman · What happens: be, answer, have, give, open · To what, where: Countryman, two heads, one, you, bag, bad

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Countryman), 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	_	4 sure	punct
2	To	to	PART	_	4 sure	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	parataxis
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 heads	nummod
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 give	obj
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 opened	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 opened	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 opened	nsubj
29	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	parataxis
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bag	nmod:poss
31	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 opened	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gave	cc
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 opened	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	iobj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bad	det
36	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 gave	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				sure property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			Countryman		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	have	present	I	two heads of head		with me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	give	future	I not said here	one	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient one=Theme
5	open	past	Countryman	Countryman's bag			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme
6	give	past	Countryman not said here	the bad	bag		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bad=Theme

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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