Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 152

‘There, now they will roll better!’ said he.

Who acts: skulls, money · What happens: roll, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skulls, money), 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 roll	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 roll	expl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 roll	punct
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 roll	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 roll	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 roll	aux
7	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 roll	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 roll	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 roll	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	future	skulls = skull			there	now	good property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	money						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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