Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 127

Said Lina: ‘Be a fishpond, and I will be the duck upon it.’

Who acts: Lina, I · What happens: say, be · To what, where: fishpond, duck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lina, 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Said	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 fishpond	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 fishpond	punct
5	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fishpond	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fishpond	det
7	fishpond	fishpond	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 duck	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 duck	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 duck	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 duck	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 duck	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 duck	det
14	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fishpond	appos
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 duck	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 duck	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 duck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Lina			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive		a fishpond		tree rules
3	is a	future	I	the duck	upon duck	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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