Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 22

‘Mother,’ said the little daughter again, ‘may not brother have one too?’

Who acts: Mother, brother · What happens: say, not have · To what, where: one · 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 (Mother, brother), 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	_	2 Mother	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 daughter	amod
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 have	advmod
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 have	obj
17	too	too	ADV	_	15 have	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mother				again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not have	may	brother	one					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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