Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 74

The peasant said: ‘They want to make me mayor, if I will but put myself in the barrel, but I will not do it.’

Who acts: peasant, peasants, I · What happens: say, want, make, put, not do · To what, where: mayor, me, myself, barrel · 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 (peasant, peasants, 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 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	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 want	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
6	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 will	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 will	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 will	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 want	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	conj
18	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 put	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 barrel	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 barrel	det
21	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 do	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 do	advmod
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 do	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the peasant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	peasants = peasant				tree rules
3	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	peasants = peasant not said here	mayor	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary mayor=Product
4	put	infinitive	peasants = peasant not said here	myself		the barrel	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in barrel=Destination
5	not do	future	I	barrel			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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