Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 15

‘Do just tell her, miss, that a young fox is here, who would like to woo her.’

Who acts: you, young fox · What happens: tell, be, like, woo · To what, where: miss, guest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, young fox), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 miss	punct
7	miss	miss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 here	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fox	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fox	amod
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 here	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 here	cop
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 like	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 like	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 woo	mark
20	woo	woo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 woo	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here	miss	guest		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	a young fox			here property	tree rules
3	like	would					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	woo not said to happen	to-infinitive		guest			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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