Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 52

When the giant saw him, he called out, ‘It is lucky for that you have come, for I have not had anything to eat for a long time.

Who acts: giant, man, It, you, I · What happens: see, call out, be, come, not have, eat · To what, where: man, anything

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, man, It, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 called	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lucky	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 lucky	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lucky	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lucky	cop
14	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 called	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 lucky	obl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 lucky	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 had	advmod
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 come	advcl
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 had	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 anything	acl
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 time	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eat	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the giant	man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	call out speech: assert	past	man				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	It			for that; lucky property	tree rules
4	come	present · perfect	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not have	present · perfect	I	anything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
6	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	anything not said here	time		vn eat-39.1-1 «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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