Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 7

‘Who knows but I may?’ said the little man: ‘tell me what ails you, and perhaps you will find I may be of some use.’

Who acts: little man, you, I · What happens: know, say, tell, ail, find, be · To what, where: me, you · 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 man, 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	_	3 knows	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 may	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 may	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 ails	nsubj
18	ails	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 ails	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 find	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 find	cc
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	25 find	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 find	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 find	aux
25	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	parataxis
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 use	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 use	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 use	cop
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 some	case
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 use	nsubj
31	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 find	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the little man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	ail	present		you			vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient you=Experiencer
5	find	future	you			perhaps property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	is	may	I			use property	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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