Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 81

Then said they, "It is as we wished it to be, and it shall be our dear child;" and because of its size, they called it Thumbling.

Who acts: children, fire · What happens: say, be, call, thumbl · To what, where: dear child, fire · 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, fire), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wished	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 wished	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wished	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wished	cop
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 wished	mark
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wished	nsubj
10	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wished	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 be	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 wished	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 child	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 child	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 child	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 child	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 child	cop
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 child	nmod:poss
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 child	amod
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 called	cc
25	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	28 size	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 because	fixed
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 size	nmod:poss
28	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 called	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 size	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 called	nsubj
31	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 called	obj
33	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 called	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	children = child		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	fire			wish property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	shall	fire	our dear child			tree rules
4	call	past	children = child	fire		because fire's size	tree rules
5	thumbl	gerund	children = child not said here				tree rules

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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