Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 6

‘If you would do me any good I would willingly tell you,’ said the merchant.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, tell, say · To what, where: good, me, you, merchant · 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 (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 do	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 do	iobj
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 good	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 do	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
11	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	12 tell	advmod
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 good	acl:relcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 merchant	det
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	would	you	any good	me		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	would	I		you	willingly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past		the merchant			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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