Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 2

The eldest wished for pearls; the second for jewels; but the third, who was called Lily, said, ‘Dear father, bring me a rose.’

Who acts: Dear father · What happens: wish, call, say, bring · To what, where: third, rose, me · 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 (Dear 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wished	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 wished	amod
3	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 pearls	case
5	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wished	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 second	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 second	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 wished	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 jewels	case
10	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 second	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 third	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 called	nsubj:pass
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 called	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wished	parataxis
19	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wished	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 father	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 father	punct
24	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 father	amod
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 father	punct
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rose	det
30	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wish	participle				for pearls	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for pearl=Theme
2	call	past · passive		the third			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring	infinitive	Dear father	a rose	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination rose=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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