Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 75

The shepherd said: ‘If nothing more than that is needful in order to be mayor, I would get into the barrel at once.’

Who acts: shepherd, nothing, I · What happens: say, be, get · To what, where: mayor, 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 (shepherd, nothing, 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 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 needful	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 needful	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 needful	mark
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 needful	nsubj
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 nothing	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 more	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 needful	cop
12	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 mayor	case
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	fixed
15	to	to	PART	_	17 mayor	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 mayor	cop
17	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needful	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 get	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 get	aux
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 barrel	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 barrel	det
24	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 get	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the shepherd			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	nothing		needful property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive		mayor		tree rules
4	get	would	I	the barrel		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into barrel=Destination

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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