Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 129

As soon as she was alone that dwarf came in, and said, ‘What will you give me to spin gold for you this third time?’

Who acts: daughter, dwarf, you · What happens: be, come in, say, give, spin · To what, where: me, gold · 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 (daughter, dwarf, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 came	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 alone	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 alone	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 alone	cop
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soon	advcl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 dwarf	det
8	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 give	obj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 spin	mark
22	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 give	advcl
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spin	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 spin	obl
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 time	det
27	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spin	obl:unmarked
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	daughter				alone property	tree rules
2	come in	past	that dwarf				soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	that dwarf not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	future	you		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
5	spin	to-infinitive	you not said here	gold		time	for you	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent gold=Result for you=Beneficiary

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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