Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 16

"Maiden, fairest, come to me, 'Tis a mortal here you see; Let us speed all his desires, Giving him what he requires."

Who acts: you, us, Maiden · What happens: come, see, let, speed, give, require · To what, where: eastwards, us, desires, Maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, Maiden), 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	_	4 fairest	punct
2	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fairest	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fairest	punct
4	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fairest	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
11	Tis	tis	ADP	_	13 mortal	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mortal	det
13	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 mortal	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Let	punct
18	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	conj
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Let	obj
20	speed	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Let	xcomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 desires	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 desires	nmod:poss
23	desires	desire	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 speed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Giving	punct
25	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 speed	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 Giving	iobj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 requires	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 requires	nsubj
29	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Giving	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fairest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive			eastwards = eastward		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	see in a quote	present	you			tis a mortal	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	let in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	us			tree rules
4	speed in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	Maiden's desires			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Agent
5	give in a quote	gerund	us not said here		Maiden		tree rules
6	require in a quote	present	Maiden				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition
7	desire in a quote		Maiden				nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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