Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 1

As a merry young huntsman was once going briskly along through a wood, there came up a little old woman, and said to him, ‘Good day, good day; you seem merry enough, but I am hungry and thirsty; do pray give me something to eat.’

Who acts: merry young huntsman, little old woman, you, I · What happens: go, come up, say, seem, be, pray · To what, where: wood, huntsman, something, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry young huntsman, little old woman, you, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 huntsman	det
3	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 huntsman	amod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 huntsman	amod
5	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 going	advmod
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
9	briskly	briskly	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	along	along	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 came	expl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 day	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 day	punct
29	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 day	amod
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 day	punct
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 day	appos
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 seem	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 seem	nsubj
36	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
37	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 seem	xcomp
38	enough	enough	ADV	_	37 merry	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 hungry	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 hungry	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 hungry	nsubj
42	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 hungry	cop
43	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	parataxis
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 thirsty	cc
45	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 hungry	conj
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 pray	punct
47	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 pray	aux
48	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	conj
49	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 pray	xcomp
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 give	iobj
51	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	49 give	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 eat	mark
53	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 something	acl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 pray	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	48 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	a merry young huntsman			a wood		along, briskly, once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
2	come up	past	a little old woman			there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	a little old woman not said here		huntsman		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	seem	present	you					merry property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	present	I					hungry property	tree rules
6	be		I not said here						tree rules
7	pray	infinitive · do-support	a little old woman not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	give	infinitive	a little old woman not said here	something	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
9	eat	to-infinitive	a little old woman not said here	something not said here					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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