Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 39

The miller was curious, and said: ‘Let him foretell something for once.’

Who acts: miller · What happens: be, say, let, foretell · To what, where: miller, something · 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 (miller), 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 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curious	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 curious	cop
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 curious	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
10	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Let	obj
12	foretell	foretell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Let	xcomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 foretell	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 foretell	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the miller		curious property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the miller not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		miller		tree rules
4	foretell	infinitive	miller not said here	something		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

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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