Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 81

The second night she came again; and on the third she said to the kitchen-boy, "Go and tell the King to take his sword, and swing it thrice over me, on the threshold."

Who acts: piece · What happens: come, say, go, tell, take, swing · To what, where: kitchen boy, third, King, sword · 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 (piece), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 third	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 third	det
11	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 boy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boy	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 kitchen	punct
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct
21	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
23	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 Go	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tell	ccomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sword	nmod:poss
29	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 swing	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 swing	cc
32	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 Go	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 swing	obj
34	thrice	thrice	ADV	_	32 swing	advmod
35	over	over	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 swing	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 threshold	punct
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 threshold	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 threshold	det
40	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swing	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	piece				again; night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	piece		the kitchen boy	the third			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			the King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		child's sword					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
6	swing in a quote	infinitive		sword				over piece; thrice property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme over i=Trajectory

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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