Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 77

One of them said that he had found a stick, and that he had but to strike it against any door through which he wished to pass, and it immediately flew open.

Who acts: One, God, stick · What happens: say, find, have, strike, wish, pass · To what, where: stick · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (One, God, stick), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 said	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stick	det
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 strike	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 strike	mark
18	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 strike	obj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 door	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 strike	obl
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 wished	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wished	nsubj
26	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 strike	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 pass	mark
28	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wished	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 flew	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flew	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 flew	nsubj
32	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	33 flew	advmod
33	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	conj
34	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 flew	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	One of robbers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	past · perfect	God	a stick		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic
3	have	past	God			tree rules
4	strike	to-infinitive	God not said here	stick	against any door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument against door=Patient
5	wish	past	God			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	pass not said to happen	to-infinitive	God not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fly	past	stick		immediately, open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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