Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 132

‘That may never be,’ thought the miller’s daughter: and as she knew no other way to get her task done, she said she would do what he asked.

Who acts: That, daughter, task, man · What happens: not be, think, know, get, do, say · To what, where: daughter, other way, 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 (That, daughter, task, 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	_	5 be	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 be	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 be	advmod
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 miller	det
10	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 miller	case
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	advcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 way	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 knew	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 get	mark
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 way	acl
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 task	nmod:poss
24	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 get	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 asked	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 asked	nsubj
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 do	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not be	may	That		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past		the miller's daughter	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent daughter=Attribute clause=Theme
3	know	past	daughter	no other way	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
4	get	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	daughter's task	tree rules
5	do	participle	daughter's task not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	daughter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	do	would	daughter		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	ask speech: ask	past	man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
9	task		daughter		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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