Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 36
‘No,’ said he, ‘I do not ask my life; only to let me play upon my fiddle for the last time.’
Who acts: other, I, me · What happens: say, not ask, let, play · To what, where: life, me · 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 (other, I, me), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 ask | advmod |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ask | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 let | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 let | mark |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 fiddle | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fiddle | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 play | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 play | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | present · do-support | I | my life | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | me not said here | time | upon my fiddle | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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