Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 58

The princess asked what she meant, and she said, ‘Let me speak with the bridegroom this night in his chamber, and I will give thee the dress.’

Who acts: princess, me, I · What happens: ask, mean, say, let, speak, give · To what, where: me, dress, thee · 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 (princess, me, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 asked	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meant	nsubj
6	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
13	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Let	obj
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Let	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 bridegroom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bridegroom	det
18	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 speak	obl
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bridegroom	appos
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 chamber	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chamber	nmod:poss
23	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 night	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 give	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 give	aux
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	ccomp
29	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 give	iobj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dress	det
31	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the princess				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	mean	past	princess				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
5	speak speech: other	infinitive	me not said here			with the bridegroom	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with bridegroom=Co-Agent
6	give	future	I	the dress	thee		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient dress=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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