Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 76

Then the man saw that he would not get the fifty talers that day, and went away saying: ‘Such a youth has never come my way before.’

Who acts: man, youth · What happens: see, not get, go away, say, not come · To what, where: fifty talers, way · 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 (man, youth), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 talers	det
11	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 talers	nummod
12	talers	taler	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	obj
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 talers	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 went	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
22	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 youth	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 youth	det
24	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 come	advmod
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 saying	ccomp
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obj
30	before	before	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the man		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not get	would	man	the fifty talers that day			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer taler=Stimulus
3	go away	past	the man not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not come	present	such youth	my way		before property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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