Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 4

When he entered the forest he met a little grey-haired old man who bade him good day, and said: ‘Do give me a piece of cake out of your pocket, and let me have a draught of your wine; I am so hungry and thirsty.’

Who acts: eldest, little grey haired old man, me, I · What happens: enter, meet, bade, say, give, let · To what, where: forest, little grey haired old man, man, piece, me, pocket · 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 (eldest, little grey haired old man, me, 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 entered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 entered	nsubj
3	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 met	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 entered	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 grey	punct
12	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 bade	nsubj
16	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bade	obj
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bade	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 met	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
25	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 piece	det
29	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cake	case
31	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 piece	nmod
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 pocket	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 pocket	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 pocket	nmod:poss
35	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 give	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 let	obj
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 draught	det
42	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 have	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 wine	case
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wine	nmod:poss
45	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 draught	nmod
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 hungry	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 hungry	nsubj
48	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 hungry	cop
49	so	so	ADV	_	50 hungry	advmod
50	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 met	parataxis
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 thirsty	cc
52	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 hungry	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 hungry	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	eldest = eld	the forest					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination
2	meet	past	eldest = eld	a little grey haired old man					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
3	bade	past	a little grey haired old man	man			day		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	eldest = eld not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	infinitive · do-support		a piece of cake	me	your pocket			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme
6	let	infinitive		me					tree rules
7	have	infinitive	me not said here	a draught of your wine					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient
8	is	present	I					hungry property	tree rules
9	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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