Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 59

So they came back and whispered softly to him, saying, ‘Now let us have no more of your roguish jokes; but throw us out some of the money.’

Who acts: money, us, your · What happens: come back, whisper, say, let, have, throw out · To what, where: urchin, us, more, some · 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 (money, us, your), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 whispered	cc
6	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	6 whispered	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 whispered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 whispered	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 saying	ccomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 more	det
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 have	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 jokes	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 jokes	nmod:poss
22	roguish	roguish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 jokes	amod
23	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 more	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 throw	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 throw	cc
26	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 throw	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	26 throw	compound:prt
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 throw	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 money	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 money	det
32	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 some	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 throw	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	money					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	whisper speech: assert	past	money not said here		urchin		softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	money not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		us		now		tree rules
5	have	infinitive	us not said here	no more				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
6	throw out	infinitive		some	us			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination some=Theme
7	joke		your					nom joke «communication intransitive»: 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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