Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 5

One day he said to himself, ‘What shall I do with it? if I sell it, it will bring no more than another; and for eating, the little turnips are better than this; the best thing perhaps is to carry it and give it to the king as a mark of respect.’

Who acts: gardener, I, seed, little turnips, best thing · What happens: say, do, sell, bring, eat, be · To what, where: gardener, seed, more, king, respect · 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 (gardener, I, seed, little turnips), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 sell	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sell	nsubj
18	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sell	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sell	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bring	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bring	aux
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 bring	obj
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 another	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 more	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 better	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 better	cc
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 eating	mark
31	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 better	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eating	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 turnips	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 turnips	amod
35	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 better	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 better	cop
37	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	parataxis
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 this	case
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 better	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 carry	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 thing	det
42	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	43 thing	amod
43	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 carry	nsubj
44	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	47 carry	advmod
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 carry	cop
46	to	to	PART	_	47 carry	mark
47	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 carry	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 give	cc
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 carry	conj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 give	obj
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 king	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 king	det
54	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	obl
55	as	as	ADP	_	57 mark	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 mark	det
57	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 respect	case
59	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 mark	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 carry	punct
61	’	'	PUNCT	_	47 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	gardener		gardener	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	shall	I				with seed	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	sell a condition, not said to happen	present	I	seed				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	bring	future	seed	more				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent more=Theme
5	eat	gerund	the little turnips not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	the little turnips				than this; good property	tree rules
7	is	present	the best thing				carry, perhaps property	tree rules
8	give	infinitive	the best thing not said here	seed	the king		as a mark of respect	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient
9	mark			respect				nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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