Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 11

‘I see well enough,’ said the witch, ‘that you can do no more today, but I will keep you yet another night, in payment for which you must tomorrow chop me a load of wood, and chop it small.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: see, say, do, keep, chop · To what, where: witch, you, me, load · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 see	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 do	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 more	det
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 do	advmod
19	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 more	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 keep	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 keep	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 keep	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 keep	aux
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 do	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 keep	obj
26	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 night	advmod
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 night	det
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 payment	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 payment	case
31	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	parataxis
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 chop	obl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 chop	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 chop	aux
36	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 chop	obl:unmarked
37	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 payment	acl
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 chop	obj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 load	det
40	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 chop	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 wood	case
42	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 load	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 chop	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 chop	cc
45	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 chop	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 chop	obj
47	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 chop	xcomp
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	I			enough, well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		the witch			tree rules
3	do	can	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	future	I	you	night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	chop	must	you	me	tomorrow	for payment	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent i=Patient load=Result
6	chop	infinitive	you not said here	load		small property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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