Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 30

‘I brought her with me for the sake of her company on the road,’ said she; ‘pray give the girl some work to do, that she may not be idle.’

Who acts: I, maid, some · What happens: bring, say, pray, give, work, do · To what, where: maid, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, maid, some), 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	_	3 brought	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 sake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sake	det
9	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 company	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 company	nmod:poss
12	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sake	nmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 company	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 pray	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 pray	punct
22	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pray	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 work	nsubj
27	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 girl	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 work	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 idle	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 idle	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 idle	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 idle	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 idle	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 idle	cop
36	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 give	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 pray	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bring	past	I		maid	with me; for the sake of maid's company on the road	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	maid				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pray	infinitive					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	give	infinitive		the girl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
5	work	present	some	the girl not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Theme clause=Eventuality
6	do	to-infinitive	some not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not is	may	maid			idle property	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: «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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