Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 92

Grant me my life; what do you want with such a slender little fellow as I? you would not feel me between your teeth.

Who acts: you · What happens: grant, want, not feel · To what, where: life, me, slender little fellow, teeth

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Grant	obj
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grant	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 want	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 want	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Grant	parataxis
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	15 fellow	mark
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 fellow	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fellow	det
13	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fellow	amod
15	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	xcomp
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 I	case
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fellow	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 feel	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 feel	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 feel	advmod
22	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 want	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 feel	obj
24	between	between	ADP	_	26 teeth	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 teeth	nmod:poss
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 feel	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Grant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	grant	imperative	you not said here	my life	me		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal life=Theme
2	want	present · do-support	you	such slender little fellow as I			tree rules
3	not feel not said to happen	would	you	me		your teeth	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme between tooth=Location

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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