Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 19

Then said a straw, ‘I will lay myself across, and you may pass over upon me.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: say, lay, pass over · To what, where: straw, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 straw	det
4	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lay	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	aux
9	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
10	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 lay	obj
11	across	across	ADV	_	9 lay	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pass	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pass	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 pass	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pass	aux
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
17	over	over	ADV	_	16 pass	advmod
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 pass	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 pass	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		a straw	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent straw=Topic
2	lay	future	I	myself		across property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Result
3	pass over	may	you			upon me; over property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon i=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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