Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 24

So they went up to the woodman, and asked him what he would take for the little man.

Who acts: strangers, other · What happens: go up, ask, take · To what, where: other · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strangers, other), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 woodman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woodman	det
7	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 take	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go up	past	strangers = stranger		to the woodman	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	ask speech: ask	past	strangers = stranger not said here	other		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take	would	other		for the little man	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Theme for man=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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