Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 3

But his wife said, ‘Pray let the poor faithful creature live; he has served us well a great many years, and we ought to give him a livelihood for the rest of his days.’

Who acts: wife, Pray, poor faithful creature, shepherd · What happens: say, let, live, serve, give · To what, where: poor faithful creature, us, livelihood, shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Pray, poor faithful creature, shepherd), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
7	Pray	Pray	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creature	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
11	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
13	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 creature	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 served	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 served	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 served	aux
17	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	conj
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 served	obj
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 years	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 years	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 years	amod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 years	amod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 served	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ought	cc
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 ought	nsubj
27	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 served	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 give	mark
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ought	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 give	iobj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 livelihood	det
32	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 rest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rest	det
35	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 days	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 days	nmod:poss
38	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 rest	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	shepherd's wife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	past	Pray	the poor faithful creature				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
3	live	present	the poor faithful creature not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	serve	present · perfect	shepherd	us		year		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute
5	give	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	a livelihood	shepherd		for the rest of shepherd's days	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient livelihood=Theme for rest=Asset

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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