Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 16

And his mother gave him only some dry bread, and a bottle of sour ale; but when he went into the forest, he met the little old man, who said, "Give me some meat and drink, for I am very hungry and thirsty."

Who acts: mother, Father, little old man · What happens: give, go, meet, say, be · To what, where: dry bread, Father, forest, little old man, meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, Father, little old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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