Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 38

"Well, come along," said Fred; "we will try at all events; but take butter and cheese with you, that we may have something to eat on our journey."

Who acts: Fred, we, our · What happens: come along, say, try, take, have, eat · To what, where: events, butter, something, journey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fred, we, our), 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 come	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 come	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 events	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 events	det
17	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 try	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
21	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cheese	cc
23	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 butter	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 take	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 have	mark
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 take	conj
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 have	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 eat	mark
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 something	acl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 journey	case
35	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 journey	nmod:poss
36	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eat	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come along in a quote	infinitive				along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Fred				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try in a quote	future	we		all events		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	take in a quote	infinitive		butter and cheese		with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme
5	have in a quote	may	we	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
6	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	something not said here	our journey		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	journey in a quote		our				nom journey «act 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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