Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 70

He said to him: ‘I set you free from the closet, set me free from the barrel.’

Who acts: other, I · What happens: say, set · To what, where: priest, free, me, barrel · 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 (other, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 set	nsubj
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 free	nsubj
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 set	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 closet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 closet	det
13	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 free	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 set	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 set	obj
17	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 set	xcomp
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 barrel	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 barrel	det
20	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	other		priest			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	set	present	I	free				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result
3	set	infinitive	I not said here	me		the barrel	free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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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