Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 30

‘Ah,’ said the wife, ‘the poor knave came in the storm and rain, and begged for shelter, so I gave him a bit of bread and cheese, and showed him where the straw was.’

Who acts: poor knave, I, straw · What happens: say, come, beg, give, show, be · To what, where: wife, storm, bit, knave · 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 (poor knave, I, straw), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 knave	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knave	amod
12	knave	knave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 storm	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 storm	det
16	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rain	cc
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 storm	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 begged	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 begged	cc
21	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 came	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 shelter	case
23	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 begged	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 gave	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 begged	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 bit	det
30	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obl:unmarked
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 bread	case
32	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bit	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cheese	cc
34	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bit	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 showed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 showed	cc
37	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 showed	iobj
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 was	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 straw	det
41	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 was	nsubj
42	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 showed	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	come	past	the poor knave			the storm and rain		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Location
3	beg speech: request	participle	the poor knave not said here				for shelter	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for shelter=Topic
4	give	past	I	a bit of bread and cheese	knave			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	show	past			knave			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	be	past	the straw					vn exist-47.1 «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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