Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 12

She thought for a moment and said: ‘Dear father, I wish for eleven girls exactly like myself in face, figure, and size.’

Who acts: news, I · What happens: think, say, wish · To what, where: Dear father, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 moment	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
10	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wish	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wish	nsubj
14	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 father	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 girls	case
16	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 girls	nummod
17	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wish	obl
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	20 myself	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 myself	case
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 wish	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 face	case
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wish	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 figure	punct
24	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 face	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 size	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 size	cc
27	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	news			moment		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	news not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wish	present	I	Dear father and size not said here	face		for eleven girls; like myself	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot father=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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