Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 42

But the old woman called out, ‘Come and eat your suppers, and let the thing be till tomorrow; the finger won’t run away.’

Who acts: old woman, thing, finger · What happens: call out, come, eat, let, be, not run away · To what, where: old woman, suppers, thing

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, thing, finger), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 Come	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Come	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 woman	acl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 called	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Come	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Come	punct
9	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eat	cc
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Come	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 suppers	nmod:poss
13	suppers	supper	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Come	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obj
19	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
20	till	till	ADP	_	21 tomorrow	case
21	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 be	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 run	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 finger	det
24	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 run	nsubj
25	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 run	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 run	advmod
27	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Come	parataxis
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 run	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 run	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle		the old woman not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	infinitive	the old woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	infinitive	the old woman not said here	your suppers			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
4	let	infinitive	the old woman not said here	the thing			tree rules
5	be	infinitive	the thing not said here		tomorrow		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not run away	future	the finger			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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