Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 9
The little old grey man met him likewise, and asked him for a piece of cake and a drink of wine.
Who acts: little old grey man · What happens: meet, ask · To what, where: eldest, man
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 (little old grey man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 met | obj |
| 8 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 6 met | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 piece | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cake | case |
| 17 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drink | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drink | det |
| 20 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wine | case |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drink | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the little old grey man | eldest = eld | likewise property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little old grey man not said here | man | for a piece of cake and a drink of wine | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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