The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 18

When he got to the forest, he too met the little grey old man, who greeted him and said: ‘Give me a piece of your cake and a draught from your bottle; I am so hungry and thirsty.’

Who acts: Dullhead, little grey old man, I · What happens: get, meet, greet, say, give, be · To what, where: little grey old man, Dullhead, piece, me, bottle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, little grey old man, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 met	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 met	nsubj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 met	advmod
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
13	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 met	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 greeted	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 greeted	nsubj
18	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 man	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 greeted	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 greeted	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Give	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Give	punct
24	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 Give	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 piece	det
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Give	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 cake	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cake	nmod:poss
30	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 piece	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 draught	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 draught	det
33	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 piece	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 bottle	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bottle	nmod:poss
36	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Give	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 hungry	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 hungry	nsubj
39	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 hungry	cop
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 hungry	advmod
41	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 met	parataxis
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 thirsty	cc
43	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hungry	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 hungry	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	Dullhead				to the forest result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result
2	meet	past	Dullhead	the little grey old man				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
3	greet speech: greet	past	the little grey old man		Dullhead			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the little grey old man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	infinitive		a piece of your cake and a draught	me	your bottle		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme
6	is	present	I				hungry property	tree rules
7	be		I not said here					tree rules

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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