Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 15

The dwarf said he should have his three wishes; so he gave him the bow and fiddle, and went his way.

Who acts: dwarf · What happens: say, have, give, go, wish · To what, where: three wishes, bow, way · 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 (dwarf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dwarf	det
2	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wishes	nmod:poss
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 wishes	nummod
9	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 gave	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	nsubj
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bow	det
16	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fiddle	cc
18	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bow	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 way	nmod:poss
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dwarf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	should	dwarf	dwarf's three wishes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
3	give	past	dwarf	the bow and fiddle	bow	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bow=Theme
4	go	past	dwarf not said here	bow's way		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	wish		dwarf			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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