Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 90

The mayor pressed forward and said: ‘I will go down first, and look about me, and if things promise well I’ll call you.’

Who acts: mayor, I, things · What happens: press forward, say, go down, look, promise, call · To what, where: you · 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 (mayor, I, things), 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 mayor	det
2	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressed	nsubj
3	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pressed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 go	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
16	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 go	parataxis
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 look	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 call	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 call	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 promise	mark
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 promise	nsubj
23	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 call	advcl
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 promise	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 call	nsubj
26	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 call	aux
27	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pressed	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 call	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 call	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	press forward	past	the mayor		forward property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the mayor not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go down	future	I		down, first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	look	infinitive			about me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about i=Theme
5	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	present	things		well property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	call	future	I	you		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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