Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 58
‘Now, child,’ said he to his own daughter, ‘what will you have?’
Who acts: child, you · What happens: say, have · 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 (child, you), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 daughter | amod |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 have | obj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | child | now | to child's own daughter | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to daughter=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | future | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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