Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 32

Then the other answered, as if very unwillingly, ‘A little space I may allow thee to sit here, if thou wilt reward me well and entreat me kindly; but thou must tarry yet an hour below, till I have learnt some little matters that are yet unknown to me.’

Who acts: other, little space, thou, I, little matters · What happens: answer, allow, sit, reward, entreat, tarry · To what, where: thee, me, little matters · 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 (other, little space, thou, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 answered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 other	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unwillingly	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 unwillingly	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 unwillingly	mark
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 unwillingly	advmod
9	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unwillingly	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 allow	punct
12	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 space	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 space	amod
14	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 allow	nsubj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 allow	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 allow	aux
17	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unwillingly	conj
18	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 allow	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sit	mark
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 allow	xcomp
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sit	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reward	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 reward	mark
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 reward	nsubj
25	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	26 reward	aux
26	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sit	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 reward	obj
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 reward	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 entreat	cc
30	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 reward	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 entreat	obj
32	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	30 entreat	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 tarry	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 tarry	cc
35	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 tarry	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tarry	aux
37	tarry	tarry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
38	yet	yet	ADV	_	40 hour	advmod
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hour	det
40	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tarry	obj
41	below	below	ADV	_	40 hour	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 learnt	punct
43	till	till	SCONJ	_	46 learnt	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 learnt	nsubj
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 learnt	aux
46	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 tarry	parataxis
47	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	49 matters	det
48	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 matters	amod
49	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 learnt	obj
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 unknown	nsubj
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 unknown	cop
52	yet	yet	ADV	_	53 unknown	advmod
53	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 matters	acl:relcl
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 me	case
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 unknown	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 learnt	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 tarry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the other				then	unwillingly property	tree rules
2	allow	may	a little space		thee				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer thou=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	a little space not said here			here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reward a condition, not said to happen	future	thou		me			well property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	entreat	infinitive	thou not said here		me			kindly property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	tarry	must	thou				hour		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
7	learn	present · perfect	I	some little matters					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Topic
8	is	present	some little matters		me		yet	unknown property	tree rules

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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