Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 6

So they said, ‘Well, we cannot say we have not got what we wished for, and, little as he is, we will love him dearly.’

Who acts: people, we, wish · What happens: say, not say, not get, wish, be, love · To what, where: wish · 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 (people, we, wish), 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 said	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
6	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 say	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Well	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 say	advmod
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 got	advmod
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 say	ccomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 got	obj
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wished	nsubj
18	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	18 wished	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 little	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 little	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 little	punct
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 is	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 is	nsubj
26	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 little	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 love	punct
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 love	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 love	aux
30	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 love	obj
32	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	30 love	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 love	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 love	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert	can	we			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not get	present · perfect	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	wish	past	we			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	be	present	wish			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	love	future	we	wish	dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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