Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 14

‘Well,’ said the father, ‘we will try for once.’

Who acts: we · What happens: say, try · To what, where: father · 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 (we), 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 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 try	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 try	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 try	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 try	aux
12	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 try	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the father					tree rules
2	try	future	we						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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