Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 119

Then the mother gave her a knife, and said, ‘Never mind, cut it off; when you are queen you will not care about toes; you will not want to walk.’

Who acts: mother, you, queen · What happens: give, say, not mind, cut off, be, not care · To what, where: knife, toe, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, you, queen), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 knife	det
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mind	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	14 mind	punct
13	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 mind	advmod
14	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
16	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mind	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cut	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	16 cut	compound:prt
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 care	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 queen	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 queen	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 queen	cop
23	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 care	nsubj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 care	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 care	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 care	advmod
27	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	conj
28	about	about	ADP	_	29 toes	case
29	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 care	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 want	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 want	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 want	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 want	advmod
34	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	ccomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 walk	mark
36	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 want	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 want	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the mother	a knife	toe	then		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not mind	infinitive						vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	cut off	infinitive		knife				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
5	is a	present	you	queen				tree rules
6	not care	future	queen				about toes	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about toe=Stimulus
7	not want	future	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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