Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 10

One day, as the woodman was getting ready to go into the wood to cut fuel, he said, ‘I wish I had someone to bring the cart after me, for I want to make haste.’

Who acts: woodman, I · What happens: get, go, cut, say, wish, have · To what, where: wood, fuel, someone, cart, haste · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodman, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 getting	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 getting	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woodman	det
6	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 getting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 getting	aux
8	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	parataxis
9	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 getting	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ready	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cut	mark
16	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	advcl
17	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wish	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 wish	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 wish	nsubj
24	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wish	ccomp
27	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 had	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bring	mark
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 someone	acl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cart	det
31	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bring	obj
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 want	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 want	case
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 want	nsubj
37	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wish	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 make	mark
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 want	xcomp
40	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	the woodman				ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	to-infinitive	the woodman not said here		the wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
3	cut	to-infinitive	the woodman not said here	fuel				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuel=Product
4	say speech: assert	past	woodman			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wish	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	have	past	I	someone				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
7	bring	to-infinitive	I not said here	the cart		after me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
8	want	present	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	haste				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product

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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