Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 83

One day the peasant was getting ready to go into the forest to cut wood, when he said as if to himself, "How I wish that there was any one who would bring the cart to me!" "

Who acts: peasant, one · What happens: get, go, cut, say, wish, be · To what, where: forest, wood, cart, peasant · 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 (peasant, one), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 getting	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 getting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 getting	aux
6	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 getting	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cut	mark
14	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	advcl
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 said	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 getting	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 himself	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 himself	mark
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 himself	case
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 said	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wish	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 wish	punct
26	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 wish	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 wish	nsubj
28	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 getting	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 was	mark
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wish	ccomp
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 was	nsubj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 bring	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 bring	aux
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 one	acl:relcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cart	det
38	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bring	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 bring	obl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 bring	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 bring	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	the peasant				day	ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	to-infinitive	the peasant not said here			the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
3	cut	to-infinitive	the peasant not said here	wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
4	say speech: express	past	peasant						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	wish in a quote	present	peasant						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	be in a quote	past	any one			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bring in a quote	would	any one	the cart	peasant				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cart=Theme to i=Destination

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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