Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 22

Then a large log of wood came and said, ‘I am big enough; I will lay myself across the stream, and you shall pass over upon me.’

Who acts: large log, I, you · What happens: come, say, be, lay, pass over · To what, where: myself, stream · 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 (large log, 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	7 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 log	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 log	amod
4	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 log	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 big	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 big	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 big	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 big	cop
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 big	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	aux
19	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	advcl
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 lay	obj
21	across	across	ADP	_	23 stream	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stream	det
23	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pass	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pass	cc
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 pass	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 pass	aux
28	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lay	conj
29	over	over	ADV	_	28 pass	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 pass	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a large log of wood			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	a large log of wood not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I				big, enough property	tree rules
4	lay	future	I	myself	the stream			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Result
5	pass over	shall	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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