Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 27

‘Fair and softly,’ said the little old man; ‘right is right; I have paid my money, and your father has had it, and spent it; so be so good as to let me have what I paid it for.’

Who acts: little old man, right, I, father, me · What happens: say, be, pay, have, spend, let · To what, where: money, right, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old man, right, I, father), 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	_	2 Fair	punct
2	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 softly	cc
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 Fair	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fair	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fair	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
14	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 paid	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 paid	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 paid	aux
20	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 right	advcl
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 money	nmod:poss
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paid	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 had	aux
28	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spent	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 spent	cc
32	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 had	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spent	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 good	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 good	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 good	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 good	advmod
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 let	mark
40	to	to	PART	_	41 let	mark
41	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 good	csubj
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 let	obj
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 let	xcomp
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 have	obj
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 paid	nsubj
46	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 what	acl:relcl
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 paid	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	46 paid	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 good	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the little old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	right		right property	tree rules
3	pay	present · perfect	I	my money		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
4	have	present · perfect	your father	right		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	spend	past	your father not said here	right		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
6	is	infinitive			good property	tree rules
7	let	to-infinitive		me		tree rules
8	have	infinitive	me not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
9	pay	past	I	right		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

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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