Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 8

‘A lucky hit!’ said he, as he called to his servant, and told him to go to a beautiful bed of roses that was there, and bring him away one of the finest flowers.

Who acts: lucky hit, hit, roses · What happens: say, call, tell, go, be, bring away · To what, where: servant, hit, beautiful bed, one · 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 (lucky hit, hit, roses), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hit	det
3	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hit	amod
4	hit	hit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 called	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	nsubj
12	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 servant	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 servant	nmod:poss
15	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 bed	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bed	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bed	amod
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 roses	case
27	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bed	nmod
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 there	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 there	cop
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 roses	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bring	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bring	cc
33	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bring	obj
35	away	away	ADV	_	33 bring	advmod
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 bring	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 flowers	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 flowers	det
39	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 flowers	amod
40	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 one	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a lucky hit					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	call	past	hit		hit's servant			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	a lucky hit not said here		hit			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	a lucky hit not said here			a beautiful bed of roses		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	is	past	roses				there property	tree rules
6	bring away	infinitive	a lucky hit not said here	one of the finest flowers	hit		away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination one=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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