Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 43

‘Well, we will try,’ answered he; ‘but take some butter and cheese with you, that we may have something to eat by the way.’

Who acts: we · What happens: try, answer, take, have, eat · To what, where: husband, butter, something

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 try	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 try	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 try	parataxis
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
14	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 try	parataxis
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 butter	det
16	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cheese	cc
18	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 butter	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 take	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 something	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	try	future	we				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	past			husband		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	take	infinitive		some butter and cheese		with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Theme
4	have	may	we	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
5	eat	to-infinitive	we not said here	something not said here		by the way	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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