Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 31

The old king could not for some time think of any work for her to do; but at last he said, ‘I have a lad who takes care of my geese; she may go and help him.’

Who acts: old king, maid, king, I, lad · What happens: not think, do, say, have, take, go · To what, where: last, lad, care, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, maid, king, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 think	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 think	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 think	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 think	obl
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 work	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 work	det
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 think	obl
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 do	mark
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 work	acl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 think	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lad	det
28	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 takes	nsubj
30	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 lad	acl:relcl
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 takes	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 geese	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 geese	nmod:poss
34	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 takes	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 go	nsubj
37	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 go	aux
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 think	parataxis
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 help	cc
40	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 go	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 help	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	could	the old king				time	of any work	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	to-infinitive	maid						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	king			last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	present	I	a lad					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient
5	take	present	a lad	care				of my geese	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of goose=Initial_Location
6	go	may	maid						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	help	infinitive	maid not said here		king				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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