Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 5

At last he said, ‘Master, my time is up; I must go home and see my poor mother once more: so pray pay me my wages and let me go.’

Who acts: he, time, I, me · What happens: say, be, go, see, pray, pay · To what, where: last, poor mother, wages, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, time, I, me), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Master	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Master	punct
7	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 up	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 time	nmod:poss
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 up	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 up	cop
12	up	up	ADV	_	7 Master	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mother	amod
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 see	advmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 pray	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 pray	advmod
27	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	parataxis
28	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 pray	xcomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 pay	iobj
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wages	nmod:poss
31	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pay	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 let	cc
33	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 pray	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	my time				up property	tree rules
3	go	must	I				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	infinitive	I not said here	my poor mother				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
5	pray	infinitive						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	pay	infinitive		my wages	me			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wage=Asset
7	let	infinitive		me				tree rules
8	go	infinitive	me not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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