Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 18

‘Oh, what a pretty bird!’ said the miser; ‘I would give a great deal of money to have such a one.’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, give, have, deal · To what, where: miser, great deal, one, money · 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), 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	_	4 what	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	nsubj:outer
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 miser	det
12	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 deal	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 deal	amod
20	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 money	case
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 deal	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 have	mark
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 deal	acl
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the miser	tree rules
2	give	would	I	a great deal of money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme
3	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	such one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	deal			money	nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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