Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 14

The straw hit on a good idea, and said: ‘I will lay myself straight across, and then you can walk over on me as on a bridge.’

Who acts: straw, I, you · What happens: hit, say, lay, walk over · To what, where: straw, good idea, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straw, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 straw	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 straw	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 idea	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 idea	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 idea	amod
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 lay	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 lay	aux
15	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 lay	obj
17	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 across	advmod
18	across	across	ADV	_	15 lay	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walk	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 walk	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 walk	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 walk	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 walk	aux
24	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 lay	conj
25	over	over	ADV	_	24 walk	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 walk	obl
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 bridge	case
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 bridge	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bridge	det
31	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walk	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	participle		the straw not said here	a good idea			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the straw					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lay	future	I	myself			across property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Result
4	walk over	can	you			then	on me; as a bridge; over property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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