Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 12

Then the fox said, ‘Do not shoot me, for I will give you good counsel; I know what your business is, and that you want to find the golden bird.

Who acts: fox, I, business, you · What happens: say, not shoot, give, know, be, want · To what, where: me, good counsel, you, golden bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, I, business, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shoot	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 shoot	punct
7	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 shoot	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 shoot	advmod
9	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 shoot	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 give	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shoot	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 counsel	amod
18	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 know	ccomp
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 business	nmod:poss
24	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 what	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 what	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 want	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 want	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 know	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 find	mark
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 want	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bird	det
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bird	amod
35	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 find	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not shoot	infinitive · do-support		me			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	give	future	I	good counsel	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient counsel=Theme
4	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	your business				tree rules
6	want	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the golden bird			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic

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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