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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 16

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And his mother gave him only some dry bread, and a bottle of sour ale; but when he went into the forest, he met the little old man, who said, "Give me some meat and drink, for I am very hungry and thirsty."

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**Who acts:** mother, Father, little old man · **What happens:** give, go, meet, say, be · **To what, where:** dry bread, Father, forest, little old man, meat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, 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 (mother, Father, little old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:15:16
# text = And his mother gave him only some dry bread, and a bottle of sour ale; but when he went into the forest, he met the little old man, who said, "Give me some meat and drink, for I am very hungry and thirsty."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	parataxis	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Father's mother | some dry bread and a bottle of sour ale | Father |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Father |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **meet** | past | Father | the little old man |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some meat and drink | the little old man *= man* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meat=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the little old man *= man* |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the little old man *= man* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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