Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 122

Then she knew not what to do, and sat down once more to weep; but the dwarf soon opened the door, and said, ‘What will you give me to do your task?’

Who acts: straw, dwarf, you, your · What happens: not know, do, sit down, weep, open, say · To what, where: more, door, me, task · 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 (straw, dwarf, you, your), 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	3 knew	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 knew	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 knew	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 what	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 sat	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 weep	mark
15	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 more	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 opened	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 opened	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dwarf	det
19	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opened	nsubj
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 opened	advmod
21	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opened	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
29	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 give	obj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 give	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 give	nsubj
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 do	mark
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 give	xcomp
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 task	nmod:poss
37	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 do	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past	straw			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive	straw not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	straw not said here	more			down property	tree rules
4	weep	to-infinitive	straw not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	open	past	the dwarf	the door			soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	give	future	you		me			tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	your task				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
9	task		your					nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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