Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 158

‘I have been playing at nine-pins,’ he answered, ‘and have lost a couple of farthings.’

Who acts: I, king · What happens: play, answer, lose · To what, where: nine pins, couple · 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 (I, king), 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	_	5 playing	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 playing	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 playing	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 playing	aux
5	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 answered	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 pins	case
7	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pins	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 nine	punct
9	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 playing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 playing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 answered	nsubj
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
15	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	18 lost	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lost	cc
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 lost	aux
18	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 answered	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 couple	det
20	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lost	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 farthings	case
22	farthings	farthing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 couple	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 couple	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	play	present · perfect · progressive	I		nine pins	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past	king			tree rules
3	lose	present · perfect		a couple of farthings		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Eventuality

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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