Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 31

The man said: ‘I have no objection, but be quick and get me something to eat.’

Who acts: man, I · What happens: say, have, be, get, eat · To what, where: objection, something, me · 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 (man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 objection	det
9	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 quick	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 quick	cc
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 quick	cop
13	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 have	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 get	cc
15	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 quick	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 get	obj
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 get	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 something	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	I	no objection			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Patient
3	is	infinitive	I not said here			quick property	tree rules
4	get	infinitive	I not said here	something	me		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary something=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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