Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 47

The peasant made the raven prophesy still more, and said: ‘Thirdly, he says that there is some salad on the bed.’

Who acts: peasant, raven, salad · What happens: make, prophesy, say, be · To what, where: raven, more · 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 (peasant, raven, salad), 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 peasant	det
2	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	prophesy	prophesy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 prophesy	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
14	Thirdly	thirdly	ADV	_	17 says	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Thirdly	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 says	nsubj
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 is	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 says	ccomp
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 salad	det
22	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 is	nsubj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 bed	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bed	det
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 salad	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the peasant	the raven			tree rules
2	prophesy	infinitive	the raven not said here	more			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	raven			thirdly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	be	present	some salad on the bed		there		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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