Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 19

The miller’s wife was alone in the house, and said to the peasant: ‘Lay yourself on the straw there,’ and gave him a slice of bread and cheese.

Who acts: wife · What happens: be, say, lay, give, slice · To what, where: house, yourself, straw, slice, storm, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 miller	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	cop
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 house	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 peasant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 peasant	det
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Lay	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Lay	punct
18	Lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 Lay	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 straw	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 straw	det
22	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Lay	obl
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 Lay	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Lay	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 Lay	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 slice	det
30	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 bread	case
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slice	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cheese	cc
34	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 slice	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 house	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the miller's wife			the house	alone property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past					to the peasant	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to peasant=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	lay	infinitive		yourself		the straw; there		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme on straw=Destination
4	give	past		a slice of bread and cheese	storm			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient slice=Theme
5	slice			bread				nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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