Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 138

‘Well,’ said little Marleen, ‘I will go out too and see if the bird will give me anything.’

Who acts: little Marleen, I, bird · What happens: say, go out, see, give · To what, where: anything, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Marleen, I, bird), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Marleen	amod
7	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	too	too	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 give	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 give	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	little Marleen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go out	future	I			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	give a condition, not said to happen	future	the bird	anything	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=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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