Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 12

Then Dummling said: ‘Father, do let me go and cut wood.’

Who acts: Dummling, Father, me · What happens: say, let, go, cut · To what, where: me, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, Father, me), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
6	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 let	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Father	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	aux
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cut	cc
13	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dummling		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	present · do-support	Father	me		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	me not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cut	infinitive	me not said here	wood		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product

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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