Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 9

The sixth was not straight enough; so she said he was like a green stick, that had been laid to dry over a baker’s oven.

Who acts: sixth, maypole, dumpling · What happens: not be, say, be, lay, dry · To what, where: that, oven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sixth, maypole, dumpling), 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	2 sixth	det
2	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 straight	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 straight	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 straight	advmod
5	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 straight	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 straight	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stick	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stick	cop
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 stick	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stick	det
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stick	amod
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 laid	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laid	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 laid	aux:pass
21	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stick	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dry	mark
23	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 laid	advcl
24	over	over	ADP	_	28 oven	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 baker	det
26	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 oven	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 baker	case
28	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dry	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 straight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the sixth			enough, straight property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	maypole				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	dumpling			like a green stick	tree rules
4	lay	past · perfect · passive		that			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
5	dry	to-infinitive			a baker's oven		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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