Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 45

Then he stained his face all over brown, so that even his mother would not have known him, and went into the castle and asked for a lodging; ‘I am so tired,’ said he, ‘that I can go no farther.’

Who acts: cloud, I · What happens: stain, not know, go, ask, be, say · To what, where: face, mother, castle · 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 (cloud, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stained	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stained	nsubj
3	stained	stain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 said	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stained	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 brown	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 brown	case
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stained	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 known	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 known	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 mother	advmod
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 known	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 known	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 known	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 known	aux
18	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stained	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 known	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stained	parataxis
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 castle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 lodging	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lodging	det
30	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asked	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 tired	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 tired	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 tired	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 tired	cop
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 tired	advmod
36	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stained	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tired	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 stained	punct
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	nsubj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct
42	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 go	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 go	nsubj
45	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 go	aux
46	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
47	no	no	ADV	_	48 farther	advmod
48	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	46 go	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stain	past	cloud	cloud's face		then		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Destination
2	not know	would · perfect · passive		cloud's mother				tree rules
3	go	past			the castle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past					for a lodging	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	I				tired property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	cloud					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	go	can	I				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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