Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 128

‘Do as you please,’ said the old woman, ‘but at any rate take this pretty apple; I will give it you.’

Who acts: old woman, I · What happens: do, say, take, give · To what, where: apple, rate, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Do	obl
5	please	please	INTJ	_	2 Do	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 rate	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rate	det
17	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 apple	det
20	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	21 apple	advmod
21	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 give	obj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	infinitive					as you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	infinitive		this apple		any rate		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at rate=Asset
4	give	future	I	apple	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=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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