Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 37

‘I will give him the good one,’ said he; ‘I am sure he deserves it.’

Who acts: I, son · What happens: give, say, be, deserve · To what, where: good one, son, pity · 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 (I, son), 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 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sure	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 sure	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 sure	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sure	cop
17	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	conj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 deserves	nsubj
19	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sure	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 deserves	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I	the good one	son		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient one=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I			sure property	tree rules
4	deserve	present	son	pity			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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