Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 95

The little Man asked, "What will you give me if I spin it for you?"

Who acts: little Man, you · What happens: ask, give, spin · To what, where: little Man, gold · 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 (little Man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
7	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 give	obj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 spin	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 spin	nsubj
14	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 give	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spin	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 spin	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the little Man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	future	you		the little Man = man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
3	spin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the little Man = man	gold		for you	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Result for 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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