Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 20

Then she gave her a small piece of dry bread, saying, "On that you must subsist the whole day."

Who acts: mother, you · What happens: give, say, subsist · To what, where: small piece, wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bread	case
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bread	amod
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gave	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 subsist	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 subsist	punct
15	On	on	ADP	_	17 you	case
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 On	fixed
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 subsist	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 subsist	aux
19	subsist	subsist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saying	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 subsist	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 subsist	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 subsist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	mother	a small piece of dry bread	wind	then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient piece=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	mother not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	subsist in a quote	must	you			day	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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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