Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 31

The student listened to all this and wondered much; at last he said, ‘Blessed be the day and hour when I found you; cannot you contrive to let me into the sack for a little while?’

Who acts: student, I, you · What happens: listen, wonder, say, be, find, not contrive · To what, where: last, Blessed day, you, me, sack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 student	det
2	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 this	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 this	det:predet
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 listened	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wondered	cc
8	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
9	much	much	ADV	_	8 wondered	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
17	Blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 day	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hour	cc
22	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	conj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 found	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 day	advcl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 found	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 contrive	punct
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 contrive	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 contrive	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 contrive	nsubj
31	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 listened	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 let	mark
33	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 contrive	xcomp
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 let	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 sack	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sack	det
37	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 let	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 while	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 while	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 while	amod
41	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 let	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 contrive	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 contrive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the student				to this	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	past	the student not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	student		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	infinitive		the Blessed day and hour				tree rules
5	find	past	I	you				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic
6	not contrive	can	you					tree rules
7	let	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	the sack	while		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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