Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 131

‘Then say you will give me,’ said the little man, ‘the first little child that you may have when you are queen.’

Who acts: you, little man · What happens: say, give, have, be · To what, where: me, first little child, queen · 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, little man), 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	_	3 say	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 child	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 child	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 child	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 child	amod
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 child	amod
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 child	acl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 queen	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 queen	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 queen	cop
27	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 child	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive				then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	future	you		me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the little man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	may	you	the first little child not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	is a	present	you	queen			tree rules

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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