Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 2

He said to himself, ‘I will give her to the first suitable man who comes and asks for her hand.’

Who acts: He, I, first suitable man · What happens: say, give, come, ask · To what, where: himself, miller · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, I, first suitable man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 man	amod
14	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 man	acl:relcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asks	cc
19	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 comes	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asks	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	himself = he		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	give	future	I	miller	to the first suitable man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to man=Recipient
3	come	present	the first suitable man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	present	the first suitable man not said here		for miller's hand	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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