Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 115
‘What will you give me,’ said the hobgoblin, ‘to do it for you?’
Who acts: you · What happens: give, say, do · To what, where: me, hobgoblin · 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 (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 give | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hobgoblin | det |
| 11 | hobgoblin | hobgoblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hobgoblin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | hobgoblin | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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