Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 69
But he said, ‘Keep it, it will be just the same thing, for I mean to make you my wife.’
Who acts: huntsman, cloak, I · What happens: say, keep, be, mean, make · To what, where: cloak, same thing, wife, you · 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 (huntsman, cloak, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Keep | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Keep | punct |
| 6 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Keep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thing | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thing | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 thing | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thing | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 thing | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Keep | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mean | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 mean | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Keep | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 mean | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Keep | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | huntsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | cloak | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | future | cloak | the same thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my wife | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary wife=Product |
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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