Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 61

‘I have three tiresome beasts here,’ said the other; ‘if you will take them, give them food and room, and treat them as I tell you, I will pay you whatever you ask.’

Who acts: I, other, you · What happens: have, say, take, give, treat, tell · To what, where: beasts, food, you, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other, you), 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 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 beasts	nummod
5	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beasts	amod
6	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 here	obl:unmarked
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 have	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 take	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 room	cc
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 food	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 treat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 treat	cc
28	treat	treat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 take	parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 treat	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 tell	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
32	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 pay	advcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 pay	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 pay	aux
37	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 treat	parataxis
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 pay	obj
39	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 ask	obj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 ask	nsubj
41	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 pay	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	I			here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the other				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take a condition, not said to happen	future	you	beasts = beast			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	give	infinitive	you not said here	food and room	beasts = beast		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme
5	treat	infinitive		food			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	pay	future	I	you			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset
8	ask speech: ask	present	you	whatever			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient

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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