Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 78

And when Ashputtel begged very hard to go, she said, ‘If you can in one hour’s time pick two of those dishes of peas out of the ashes, you shall go too.’

Who acts: Ashputtel, you · What happens: beg, go, say, pick · To what, where: two · 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 (Ashputtel, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 begged	advmod
3	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 begged	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pick	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 pick	punct
14	If	if	SCONJ	_	16 can	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 can	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pick	aux
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 time	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 hour	nummod
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 time	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 hour	case
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 can	obl
22	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 pick	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 dishes	case
25	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 dishes	det
26	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 two	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 peas	case
28	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dishes	nmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 ashes	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 ashes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ashes	det
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 peas	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pick	conj
37	too	too	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 pick	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 pick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Ashputtel		hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	go	to-infinitive	Ashputtel not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	ASHPUTTEL			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pick	can		two of that dishes of peas out the ashes		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient
5	go	shall	you			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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