Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 4

Then the straw began and said: ‘Dear friends, from whence do you come here?’

Who acts: straw, Dear friends · What happens: begin, say, come · 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, Dear friends), 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	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 straw	det
3	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 friends	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 friends	punct
9	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friends	amod
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
13	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	16 come	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 come	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the straw		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	the straw not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present · do-support	Dear friends	here		whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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