Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 56

The peasant replied: ‘He says that the Devil is hiding outside there in the closet on the porch.’

Who acts: peasant, miller, Devil · What happens: reply, say, hide · To what, where: closet · 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, miller, Devil), 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 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	parataxis
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 hiding	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Devil	det
10	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hiding	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hiding	aux
12	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 says	ccomp
13	outside	outside	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 hiding	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 closet	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 closet	det
17	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hiding	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 porch	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 porch	det
20	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hiding	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the peasant			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	miller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hide	present · progressive	the Devil	the closet; there	on the porch	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in closet=Location

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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