Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 37

‘Perhaps we may,’ said the wife; ‘but let us sleep upon it, before we make up our minds to that.’

Who acts: us, we, our · What happens: say, let, sleep, make up, mind · To what, where: wife, us, minds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, we, our), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 may	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 may	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 may	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 may	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sleep	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 make	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 let	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 make	compound:prt
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 minds	nmod:poss
24	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 make	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 make	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the wife		tree rules
2	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
3	sleep	infinitive	us not said here		upon castle	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make up	present	we	our minds	to that	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
5	mind		our			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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