Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Frog-prince, sentence 11

He can never even get out of the spring to visit me, though he may be able to get my ball for me, and therefore I will tell him he shall have what he asks.’

Who acts: nonsense, I · What happens: not get out, visit, be, get, tell, have · To what, where: me, ball, nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog-prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nonsense, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 get	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 spring	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 spring	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spring	det
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 visit	mark
11	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 visit	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 able	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 able	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 able	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 able	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ball	nmod:poss
22	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 get	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	30 tell	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 tell	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tell	ccomp
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 asks	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 asks	nsubj
37	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 have	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not get out	can	nonsense			spring		tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive	nonsense not said here	me				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
3	is	may	nonsense				able property	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	nonsense not said here	my ball			for me	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ball=Theme for i=Beneficiary
5	tell speech: assert	future	I		nonsense		therefore property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	have	shall	nonsense					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	ask speech: ask	present	nonsense					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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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