Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 46

‘Upon my word!’ cried the miller, and went thither, and found the roast meat.

Who acts: word, my · What happens: cry, go, find, word · To what, where: miller, roast meat

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 (word, my), 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	_	4 word	punct
2	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 word	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 word	nmod:poss
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 word	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 word	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 miller	det
9	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
13	thither	thither	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 meat	det
18	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meat	compound
19	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	my word	the miller		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic
2	go	past	my word not said here		thither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	my word not said here	the roast meat		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Topic
4	word		my			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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