The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 4

When he reached the forest he met a little old grey man who wished him ‘Good-morning,’ and said: ‘Do give me a piece of that cake you have got in your pocket, and let me have a draught of your wine—I am so hungry and thirsty.’

Who acts: youngest, little old grey man, you, me, I · What happens: reach, meet, wish, say, give, get · To what, where: forest, little old grey man, youngest, piece, me, cake · 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 (youngest, little old grey man, you, me), 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	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 met	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
11	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wished	nsubj
14	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wished	obj
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 morning	punct
17	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 morning	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Good	punct
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wished	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 morning	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 morning	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wished	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
26	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 piece	det
30	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 cake	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 cake	det
33	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 piece	nmod
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 got	nsubj
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 got	aux
36	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 cake	acl:relcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 pocket	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 pocket	nmod:poss
39	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 let	cc
42	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 give	conj
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 let	obj
44	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 let	xcomp
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 draught	det
46	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 have	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 wine	case
48	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 wine	nmod:poss
49	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 draught	nmod
50	—	-	PUNCT	_	54 hungry	punct
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 hungry	nsubj
52	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 hungry	cop
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 hungry	advmod
54	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 give	parataxis
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 thirsty	cc
56	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 hungry	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	youngest = young	the forest					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
2	meet	past	youngest = young	a little old grey man					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
3	wish	past	a little old grey man	youngest = young			morning		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	a little old grey man not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	infinitive · do-support		a piece of that cake	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme
6	get	present · perfect	you	that cake not said here		your pocket			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=Stimulus
7	let	infinitive		me					tree rules
8	have	infinitive	me not said here	a draught of your wine					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient
9	is	present	I					hungry property	tree rules
10	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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