Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 107

‘I am not the one who carried away the victory,’ said he, ‘but a strange knight who came to my assistance with his soldiers.’

Who acts: I, one, strange knight, my · What happens: not be, carry away, say, come, assist · To what, where: one, victory, assistance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, strange knight, my), 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	_	6 one	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 one	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 one	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 carried	nsubj
8	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 one	acl:relcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 carried	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 victory	det
11	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 carried	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ‘	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 he	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 knight	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 knight	det
20	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knight	amod
21	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ‘	conj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knight	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 assistance	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 assistance	nmod:poss
26	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 soldiers	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 soldiers	nmod:poss
29	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 assistance	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	I	the one			tree rules
2	carry away	past	the one	the victory		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	a strange knight		my assistance with king's soldiers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to assistance=Initial_Location
5	assist		my			with king's soldiers	nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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