Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 51

‘That’s a good thought,’ said the thieves; ‘come along, we shall see what you can do.’

Who acts: That, we, you · What happens: be, say, come along, see, do · To what, where: good thought, thieves · 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, we, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thought	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thought	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	amod
6	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thieves	det
11	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 do	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 see	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a good thought		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the thieves		tree rules
3	come along	infinitive			along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	shall	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	can	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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