Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 40

Then the miser said, ‘Bind me fast, bind me fast, for pity’s sake.’

Who acts: miser · What happens: say, bind · To what, where: 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 (miser), 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 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miser	det
3	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Bind	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Bind	punct
7	Bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 Bind	obj
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 Bind	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bind	punct
11	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Bind	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bind	obj
13	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 bind	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sake	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 sake	case
16	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sake	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 pity	case
18	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bind	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the miser		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bind	infinitive		me		fast property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	bind	infinitive		me		for pity's sake; fast property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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