Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 12

‘I wish you would give them to me,’ said the other; ‘I am very poor.’

Who acts: I, you, other · What happens: wish, give, say, be · To what, where: earnings · 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 (I, you, other), 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	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wish	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 poor	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 poor	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 poor	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 poor	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 poor	advmod
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 poor	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	give	would	you	earnings = earning	to me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	present	I		poor property	tree rules

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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