Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 29

Then the father took the eggs, and put one on each corner of the table, and the fifth in the middle, and said to the huntsman, ‘Cut all the eggs in two pieces at one shot.’

Who acts: father · What happens: take, put, say, cut · To what, where: eggs, one, corner, two pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eggs	det
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 put	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 corner	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 corner	det
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 table	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 table	det
16	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 corner	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fifth	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fifth	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fifth	det
20	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 middle	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 middle	det
23	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fifth	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 huntsman	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 huntsman	det
29	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Cut	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 Cut	punct
32	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 eggs	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 eggs	det
35	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 Cut	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 pieces	case
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 pieces	nummod
38	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 Cut	obl
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 shot	case
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 shot	nummod
41	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Cut	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the father	the eggs		then	the fifth in the middle obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
2	put	infinitive	the father not said here	one	each corner of the table			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on corner=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the father not said here				to the huntsman	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huntsman=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	cut	infinitive		all eggs	two pieces		at one shot	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset egg=Product

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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