Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 123

They stood still listening, and Thumbling spoke again and said, "Take me with you, and I'll help you."

Who acts: thieves · What happens: stand, listen, thumbl, speak, say, take · To what, where: thieves, you · 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 (thieves), 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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 listening	advmod
4	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spoke	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spoke	cc
7	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 spoke	nsubj
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 spoke	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Take	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Take	punct
14	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Take	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 Take	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 help	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stood	parataxis
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 help	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	thieves = thief				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	listen	gerund	thieves = thief not said here		still		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	thumbl	gerund					tree rules
4	speak speech: other	past			again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	thieves = thief not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take in a quote	infinitive		thieves = thief		with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
7	help in a quote	future	thieves = thief	you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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