Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 196

Then he answered, ‘To tell the truth I did not cook it, but Cat-skin did.’

Who acts: king, I, Cat skin · What happens: answer, tell, not cook, do · To what, where: truth, soup · 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 (king, I, Cat skin), 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	3 answered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
6	To	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 cook	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cook	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cook	advmod
13	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 truth	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cook	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 did	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 did	cc
17	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 skin	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Cat	punct
19	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	king		then	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	not cook	past · do-support	I	soup		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	do	past	Cat skin			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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