Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 11

But the little peasant said: ‘Oh, but I must have my beast back again.’

Who acts: little peasant, I · What happens: say, have back · To what, where: beast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little peasant, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peasant	amod
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
8	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 have	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beast	nmod:poss
15	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the little peasant						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have back	must	I	my beast			again		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient

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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