Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 106

When the maiden was left alone, the Dwarf again appeared and asked, for the third time, "What will you give me to do this for you?"

Who acts: Dwarf, you · What happens: leave, appear, ask, give, do · To what, where: maiden, third time, Dwarf, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux:pass
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 appeared	advcl
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 left	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dwarf	det
9	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 appeared	nsubj
10	again	again	ADV	_	11 appeared	advmod
11	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 appeared	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 time	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
17	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 time	amod
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 give	obj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 time	parataxis
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 give	xcomp
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 do	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 do	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 appeared	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		the maiden			alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	appear	past	the Dwarf			again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	the Dwarf not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give in a quote	future	you	the third time	the Dwarf = dwarf			tree rules
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	this			for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality

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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