Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 15

After a while the cook said to him: ‘It is not well for you to be so alone, wish for a pretty girl as a companion.’

Who acts: cook, mouth, you · What happens: say, not be, be, wish · To what, where: Scarcely · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, mouth, you), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 well	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 well	punct
11	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 well	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 well	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 well	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 wish	advmod
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 wish	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 wish	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	20 alone	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 alone	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 alone	advmod
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	22 wish	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 alone	punct
22	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 girl	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 girl	det
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 girl	amod
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wish	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 companion	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 companion	det
29	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wish	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 wish	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the cook	Scarcely	while		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	not is	present	mouth			well property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	you not said here			alone property	tree rules
4	wish	infinitive	you			for a pretty girl; as a companion	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for girl=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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