Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 114

‘Before you receive my daughter, and the half of my kingdom,’ said he to him, ‘you must perform one more heroic deed.

Who acts: you, half · What happens: receive, say, perform · To what, where: daughter, tailor, one more heroic deed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, half), 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	_	4 receive	punct
2	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 receive	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 receive	nsubj
4	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receive	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 half	det
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 said	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kingdom	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 kingdom	nmod:poss
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 half	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 receive	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 perform	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 perform	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 perform	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 perform	aux
24	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 deed	nummod
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 deed	amod
27	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 deed	amod
28	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 perform	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 receive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	receive	present	you	my daughter		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the half of my kingdom		tailor	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	perform	must	you	one more heroic deed		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme

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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