Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 33

But the false bride said to the prince, ‘Dear husband, pray do me one piece of kindness.’

Who acts: false bride · What happens: say, pray, do · To what, where: one piece, me · 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 (false bride), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bride	det
3	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bride	amod
4	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 husband	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 husband	punct
11	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 husband	amod
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prince	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pray	punct
14	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pray	xcomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	iobj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 piece	nummod
18	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 kindness	case
20	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pray	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the false bride			to the prince and Dear husband	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to prince=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	pray	infinitive					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do	infinitive		one piece of kindness	me		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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