Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 3

‘Yes,’ said the mother, ‘if only someone would come who would have her.’

Who acts: someone · What happens: say, come, have · To what, where: mother, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 someone	advmod
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 come	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 have	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
2	come a condition, not said to happen	would	someone		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	would		daughter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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