Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 17

I have bought this flower at a high price, for I have said I would give you to a wild lion; and when he has you, he will tear you in pieces, and eat you.’

Who acts: I, father · What happens: buy, say, give, have, tear, eat · To what, where: flower, high price, you, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bought	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bought	aux
3	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 price	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 price	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 price	amod
9	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 said	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	aux
14	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 bought	conj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 lion	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lion	det
21	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lion	amod
22	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 tear	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tear	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 has	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 tear	advcl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 has	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tear	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tear	aux
32	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bought	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tear	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 pieces	case
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tear	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eat	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 eat	cc
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tear	advcl
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 eat	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	buy	present · perfect	I	this flower		a high price		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent flower=Theme at price=Asset
2	say speech: assert	present · perfect	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	would	I		you		to a wild lion	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to lion=Recipient
4	have	present	father	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	tear	future	father	you		pieces		tree rules
6	eat	infinitive	father not said here	you				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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