Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 48

When the witch and the young lady heard of his beautiful salad, they longed to taste it, and said, ‘Dear countryman, let us just taste it.’

Who acts: witch, road, Dear countryman · What happens: hear, long, taste, say, let · To what, where: salad, us · 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 (witch, road, Dear countryman), 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	8 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lady	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 witch	conj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 longed	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 salad	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 salad	nmod:poss
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 salad	amod
12	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 longed	nsubj
15	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 taste	mark
17	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 longed	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 taste	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 longed	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 countryman	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 countryman	punct
24	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 countryman	amod
25	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 let	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 countryman	punct
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	just	just	ADV	_	30 taste	advmod
30	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 let	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taste	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the witch and the young lady		of Countryman's beautiful salad	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of salad=Stimulus
2	long	past	road			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	taste not said to happen	to-infinitive	road not said here	salad		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past	road not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let	infinitive	Dear countryman	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
6	taste	present	Dear countryman not said here	salad		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

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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