Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 6

He said to him: ‘Dear son, I wished to see you once again before my end, promise me to marry as I wish,’ and he named a certain king’s daughter who was to be his wife.

Who acts: son, I, daughter · What happens: say, wish, see, promise, marry, name · To what, where: father, you, me, daughter, wife · 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 (son, I, daughter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
7	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 son	amod
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wished	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wished	nsubj
11	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 promise	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 see	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	13 see	advmod
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 end	nmod:poss
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
21	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wished	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 promise	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 marry	mark
24	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 promise	xcomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 wish	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wish	nsubj
27	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 marry	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wish	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 named	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 named	nsubj
32	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wished	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 king	det
34	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 king	amod
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 daughter	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 king	case
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 named	obl
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 wife	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 wife	cop
40	to	to	PART	_	43 wife	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 wife	cop
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 wife	nmod:poss
43	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 daughter	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	son		father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	wish	past	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive		you		before my end; again	once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	promise speech: promise	infinitive			me			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive						tree rules
6	wish	present	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	name	past	son	a certain king's daughter				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	a certain king's daughter	son's wife				tree rules

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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