Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 16

When he came to the forest the little old grey man met him likewise, and greeting him, said: ‘Give me a piece of your cake and a drink out of your bottle; I am so hungry and thirsty.’

Who acts: Dummling, little old grey man, I · What happens: come, meet, greet, say, give, be · To what, where: forest, Dummling, piece, me, bottle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, little old grey man, I), 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	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 met	nsubj
12	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 met	obj
14	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	12 met	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 greeting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 greeting	cc
17	greeting	greet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 greeting	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Give	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Give	punct
23	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Give	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 piece	det
26	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Give	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 cake	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cake	nmod:poss
29	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 piece	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 drink	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 drink	det
32	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 piece	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 bottle	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 bottle	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bottle	nmod:poss
36	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Give	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 hungry	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 hungry	nsubj
39	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 hungry	cop
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 hungry	advmod
41	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 thirsty	cc
43	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hungry	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 hungry	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Dummling			the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
2	meet	past	the little old grey man	Dummling			likewise property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	greet speech: greet	gerund	Dummling not said here		Dummling			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	infinitive		a piece of your cake and a drink	me	your bottle		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme
6	is	present	I				hungry property	tree rules
7	be		I not said here					tree rules

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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