Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 13
Then the man pitied him, and gave him all he had; and the little dwarf said in return, ‘As you have such a kind honest heart, I will grant you three wishes--one for every penny; so choose whatever you like.’
Who acts: man, other, little dwarf, you, I · What happens: pity, give, have, say, grant, choose · To what, where: other, all, return, kind honest heart, three wishes, you · 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 (man, other, little dwarf, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pitied | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pitied | nsubj |
| 4 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pitied | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitied | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 all | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dwarf | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dwarf | amod |
| 17 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitied | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 return | case |
| 20 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grant | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 grant | punct |
| 23 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 grant | advcl |
| 26 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 heart | det:predet |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 heart | det |
| 28 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heart | compound |
| 29 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 heart | amod |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 grant | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 grant | aux |
| 34 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | conj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 grant | obj |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 wishes | nummod |
| 37 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 grant | obj |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 one | punct |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 wishes | appos |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 penny | case |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 penny | det |
| 42 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 one | nmod |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 choose | punct |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 choose | advmod |
| 45 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pitied | conj |
| 46 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 choose | obj |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 like | nsubj |
| 48 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 choose | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | past | the man | other | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | give | past | the man not said here | all | other | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | other | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the little dwarf | return | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in return=Manner | ||||
| 5 | have | present | you | such kind honest heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 6 | grant | future | I | three wishes | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal wish=Theme | |||
| 7 | choose | infinitive | the man not said here | whatever | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme | ||||
| 8 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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