Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 59

‘The first twig, dear father, that brushes against your hat when you turn your face to come homewards,’ said she.

Who acts: that, you, first twig · What happens: brush, turn, come, say · To what, where: hat, face, homewards · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, you, first twig), 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	_	24 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 twig	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 twig	amod
4	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 father	amod
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twig	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brushes	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 brushes	nsubj
10	brushes	brush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 twig	parataxis
11	against	against	ADP	_	13 hat	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hat	nmod:poss
13	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brushes	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 turn	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 turn	nsubj
16	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 brushes	advcl
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 face	nmod:poss
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 turn	advcl
21	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 come	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turn	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 brushes	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	brush	present	that		your hat	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme against hat=Destination
2	turn	present	you	your face		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Theme
3	come	to-infinitive	you not said here	homewards		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the first twig and dear father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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