Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 61

The giant showed him a bed, and said he was to lie down in it and sleep.

Who acts: giant, tailor · What happens: show, say, be, sleep · To what, where: bed, tailor, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, tailor), 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	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lie	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lie	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lie	mark
13	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 lie	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lie	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sleep	cc
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 lie	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past	the giant	a bed	tailor			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bed=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the giant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	tailor			hand	lie property	tree rules
4	sleep	infinitive	tailor not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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