Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 65

In the evening, after they came home, Curdken went to the old king, and said, ‘I cannot have that strange girl to help me to keep the geese any longer.’

Who acts: hills, Curdken, I, me · What happens: come, go, say, not have, help, keep · To what, where: strange girl, me, geese · 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 (hills, Curdken, I, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 came	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	Curdken	Curdken	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 king	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 king	amod
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 girl	det
26	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 girl	amod
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 help	mark
29	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 girl	acl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 help	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 keep	mark
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 help	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 geese	det
34	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 keep	obj
35	any	any	ADV	_	36 longer	advmod
36	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 keep	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	hills = hill		evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Curdken			to the old king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	hills = hill not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not have	can	I	that strange girl			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
5	help	to-infinitive	I not said here	me			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	keep	to-infinitive	me not said here	the geese		long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=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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