Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 148

The youth also wanted to play and said: ‘Listen you, can I join you?’

Who acts: youth, I · What happens: want, play, say, listen, join · To what, where: you · 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 (youth, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 play	mark
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Listen	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Listen	punct
11	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 Listen	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 join	punct
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 join	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 join	nsubj
16	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Listen	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 join	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 Listen	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	past	the youth		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the youth not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	listen	infinitive		you	tree rules
5	join	can	I	you	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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