Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 111

So he said: “I did the best of all, and it would have gone badly without me.”

Who acts: hedge, part · What happens: say, do, go · To what, where: best · 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 (hedge, part), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 best	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 did	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 best	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gone	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gone	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 gone	aux
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
18	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 gone	advmod
19	without	without	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 gone	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	hedge			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	past	hedge	the best		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
3	go in a quote	would · perfect	part		without hedge; badly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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