Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 57

The miller said: ‘The Devil must go out,’ and opened the house-door; then the woman was forced to give up the keys, and the peasant unlocked the closet.

Who acts: miller, Devil, woman, peasant · What happens: say, go out, open, force, give up, unlock · To what, where: house door, woman, keys, 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 (miller, Devil, woman, peasant), 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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Devil	det
7	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 opened	cc
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 door	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 house	punct
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opened	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 forced	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 forced	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forced	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 forced	aux:pass
24	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 forced	xcomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 give	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 keys	det
29	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 give	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 unlocked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 unlocked	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 peasant	det
33	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 unlocked	nsubj
34	unlocked	unlock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 forced	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 closet	det
36	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 unlocked	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the miller				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go out	must	the Devil			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	open	past	the miller not said here	the house door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	force	past · passive		the woman	then		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give up	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	the keys			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Source
6	unlock	past	the peasant	the closet			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent closet=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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