Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 52

‘Ah!’ said the young man, ‘that would be a great thing, but how can you contrive it?’

Who acts: that, you · What happens: say, be, contrive · To what, where: young man, thing · 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 (that, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
10	‘	‘	ADP	_	16 thing	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 thing	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 thing	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 thing	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 contrive	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 contrive	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 contrive	advmod
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 contrive	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 contrive	nsubj
22	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 contrive	obj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 contrive	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 contrive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the young man		tree rules
2	is	would	that		‘ a great thing	tree rules
3	contrive	can	you	thing		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result

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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