Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 23

Then the wild man said: ‘It lies under your mother’s pillow, you can get it there.’

Who acts: wild man, door, you · What happens: say, lie, get · To what, where: pillow, door · 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 (wild man, door, 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	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
8	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lies	nsubj
9	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
10	under	under	ADP	_	14 pillow	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pillow	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 mother	case
14	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 lies	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	obj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 get	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wild man			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	present	door		your mother's pillow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under pillow=Location
3	get	can	you	door	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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