Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 11

So he said, "Mistress, if you will not give me better things to eat, I shall chalk upon your door, 'Too many potatoes, and not enough meat.

Who acts: Tom, you · What happens: say, not give, eat, chalk · To what, where: better things, many potatoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, you), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mistress	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Mistress	punct
6	Mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 give	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 give	advmod
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 things	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chalk	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 chalk	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 chalk	aux
21	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 door	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 door	nmod:poss
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chalk	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 potatoes	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 potatoes	punct
27	Too	too	ADV	_	28 many	advmod
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 potatoes	amod
29	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	iobj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 meat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 meat	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 meat	advmod
33	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 meat	amod
34	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tom				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you	better things	many potatoes	enough meat obl	tree rules
3	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	better things not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	chalk in a quote	shall	Tom			upon your door	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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