Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 15

And when the baker had rubbed his feet over, he ran to the miller and said: ‘Strew some white meal over my feet for me.’

Who acts: wolf · What happens: rub over, run, say · To what, where: baker, Strew · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 rubbed	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baker	det
4	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rubbed	aux
6	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ran	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rubbed	obj
9	over	over	ADV	_	6 rubbed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rubbed	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 miller	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 miller	det
15	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ran	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Strew	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Strew	punct
20	Strew	Strew	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 meal	det
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 meal	amod
23	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 feet	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 meal	nmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 said	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rub over	past · perfect · passive		the baker	over property	tree rules
2	run	past	wolf		to the miller result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to miller=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	wolf not said here	Strew	for me	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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