Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 143

‘Wait,’ said he, ‘I will just stoke up the fire a little for you.’

Who acts: half, I · What happens: wait, say, stoke up · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, 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	_	2 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stoke	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 stoke	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 stoke	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stoke	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 stoke	advmod
12	stoke	stoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 stoke	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stoke	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 little	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stoke	obl:unmarked
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 little	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 stoke	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 stoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	half			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stoke up	future	I	the fire	a little obl:unmarked	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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