Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 24

As soon as the man in the sack saw him passing under the tree, he cried out, ‘Good morning! good morning to thee, my friend!’

Who acts: man, horseman · What happens: see, pass, cry out · To what, where: horseman, tree

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, horseman), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 saw	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sack	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sack	det
8	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 saw	xcomp
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 cried	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 morning	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 morning	punct
21	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 morning	amod
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 morning	punct
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 morning	amod
25	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 thee	case
27	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 morning	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 friend	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 friend	nmod:poss
30	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 friend	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 friend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the man in the sack	horseman			my friend obl; soon property	tree rules
2	pass	gerund	horseman not said here		the tree			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tree=Location
3	cry out speech: express	past	horseman			morning		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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