Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 23

‘Oh, for heaven’s sake!’ cried the miser, ‘Master! master! pray let the fiddle alone.

Who acts: sake · What happens: cry, pray, let · To what, where: miser, master, fiddle

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 (sake), 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	_	7 sake	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 sake	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 sake	case
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sake	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 heaven	case
7	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 sake	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 cried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Master	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Master	punct
15	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 master	punct
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pray	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 master	punct
19	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pray	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fiddle	det
22	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	obj
23	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 let	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	heaven's sake	the miser	Master obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miser=Topic
2	pray	present	heaven's sake not said here	master		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	let	infinitive	heaven's sake not said here	the fiddle	alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=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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