Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 40

‘No,’ said the sun, ‘I have not seen it; but I will give thee a casket--open it when thy hour of need comes.’

Who acts: I, hour · What happens: say, not see, give, open, come · To what, where: sun, casket, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hour), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seen	advmod
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 give	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 casket	det
22	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 open	punct
24	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 give	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 open	obj
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 comes	mark
27	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 hour	nmod:poss
28	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 comes	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 need	case
30	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hour	nmod
31	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 open	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the sun		tree rules
2	not see	present · perfect	I	sun		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	give	future	I	a casket	thee	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient casket=Theme
4	open	infinitive		sun		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	come	present	thy hour of need			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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