Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 174

Then they showed her a little corner under the staircase, where no light of day ever peeped in, and said, ‘Cat-skin, you may lie and sleep there.’

Who acts: father, light, you · What happens: show, peep, say, lie, sleep, light · To what, where: little corner, beast, staircase, day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, light, you), 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 showed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 corner	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 corner	amod
7	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 staircase	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 staircase	det
10	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 corner	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 peeped	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 peeped	advmod
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 light	det
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 peeped	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 day	case
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 light	nmod
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 peeped	advmod
18	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 corner	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 peeped	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 skin	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 skin	punct
25	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 skin	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Cat	punct
27	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lie	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 lie	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 lie	aux
31	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 showed	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sleep	cc
33	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 lie	conj
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sleep	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 lie	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	show	past	father	a little corner	beast	the staircase	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient corner=Topic
2	peep	past	no light of day				ever	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	father not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	lie	may	you					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	infinitive	you not said here			there		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	light			day				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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