Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 110

They walked until it was dusk, and then the little fellow said, "Do take me down; I want to come down."

Who acts: children, leave, little fellow · What happens: walk, be, say, take down, want, come down · To what, where: little fellow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, leave, little fellow), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	ADP	_	6 dusk	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dusk	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dusk	cop
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fellow	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
16	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 take	compound:prt
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 want	nsubj
22	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 come	mark
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 want	xcomp
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	children = child				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	leave		until dusk		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the little fellow		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take down in a quote	infinitive · do-support		the little fellow = fellow			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	want in a quote	present	the little fellow = fellow				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	come down not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the little fellow = fellow not said here			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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: «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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