Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 54

‘I would rather you let that alone,’ said the man, ‘for I do not willingly give myself up to be eaten; if you are wanting food I have enough to satisfy your hunger.’

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: let, say, not give up, eat, want, have · To what, where: man, myself, food, enough, hunger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. 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, your), 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	_	11 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 let	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 alone	mark
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 let	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 man	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 give	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 give	advmod
20	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	21 give	advmod
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
22	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 give	iobj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 give	compound:prt
24	to	to	PART	_	26 eaten	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 eaten	aux:pass
26	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 give	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 wanting	punct
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 wanting	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 wanting	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 wanting	aux
31	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 have	advcl
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wanting	obj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
34	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
35	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 have	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 satisfy	mark
37	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 enough	advcl
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hunger	nmod:poss
39	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 satisfy	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	would	I			alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the man			tree rules
3	not give up	present · do-support	I		myself	willingly property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Source
4	eat	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»
5	want a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	you	food			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
6	have	present	I	enough			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
7	satisfy	to-infinitive	I not said here	your hunger			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer
8	hunger		your				nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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