Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 34

Then the other pretended to give way, and said, ‘Thou must let the sack of wisdom descend, by untying yonder cord, and then thou shalt enter.’

Who acts: other, Thou, sack · What happens: pretend, give, say, let, descend, untie · To what, where: way, cord · 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, Thou, sack), 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 pretended	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 other	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretended	xcomp
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretended	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 let	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 let	aux
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sack	det
17	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 descend	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 wisdom	case
19	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sack	nmod
20	descend	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 untying	punct
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 untying	mark
23	untying	untie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 descend	advcl
24	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	25 cord	advmod
25	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 untying	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enter	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 enter	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 enter	advmod
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 enter	nsubj
30	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	31 enter	aux
31	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	pretend	past	the other		then	tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	the other not said here	way		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the other not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	must	Thou			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	descend	present	the sack of wisdom			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	untie	gerund	the sack of wisdom not said here	cord		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
7	enter	shall	thou		then	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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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