Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 33

It was not long before the witch came striding up towards them, and said to the musician: ‘Dear musician, may I pluck that beautiful flower for myself?’

Who acts: flower, I · What happens: not be, come, stride up, say, pluck · To what, where: Dear musician, musician, beautiful flower · 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 (flower, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 came	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 witch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	striding	stride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 striding	compound:prt
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 striding	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 musician	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 musician	det
18	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 musician	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 musician	punct
21	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 musician	amod
22	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pluck	punct
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 pluck	aux
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 pluck	nsubj
26	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 musician	acl:relcl
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 flower	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flower	amod
29	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pluck	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 myself	case
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 pluck	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 pluck	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 musician	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	flower				long property	tree rules
2	come	past		Dear musician		before the witch		tree rules
3	stride up	gerund					towards breadcrumbs = breadcrumb	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past			the musician			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to musician=Recipient
5	pluck	may	I	that beautiful flower			for myself	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for myself=Beneficiary

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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