Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 4

As he went into the forest, a little old man bid him good day, and said, "Give me a little bit of meat from your plate, and a little wine out of your flask; I am very hungry and thirsty."

Who acts: eldest, little old man, little wine · What happens: go, bid, say, give, be · To what, where: forest, eldest, little bit, little old man, plate · 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 (eldest, little old man, little wine), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bid	advcl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bid	nsubj
12	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bid	obj
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bid	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bid	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Give	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Give	punct
21	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Give	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bit	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bit	amod
25	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Give	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 meat	case
27	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bit	nmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 plate	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 plate	nmod:poss
30	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Give	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 hungry	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 hungry	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 wine	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wine	amod
35	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hungry	nsubj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 flask	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 flask	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 flask	nmod:poss
39	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wine	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 hungry	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 hungry	nsubj
42	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 hungry	cop
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 hungry	advmod
44	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bid	parataxis
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 thirsty	cc
46	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 hungry	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 hungry	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	eldest = eld			the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
2	bid	past	a little old man	eldest = eld			day		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	a little old man not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	infinitive		a little bit of meat	a little old man = man	your plate			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bit=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	a little wine out your flask					hungry property	tree rules
6	be in a quote		a little wine out your flask not said here						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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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