Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 37

Then he descended again, and went to his father, and caused himself to be announced as a strange huntsman, and asked if he could offer him service.

Who acts: cook · What happens: descend, go, cause, announce, ask, offer · To what, where: cook, service, poodle

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 descended	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 descended	nsubj
3	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	again	again	ADV	_	3 descended	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 descended	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caused	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 caused	cc
13	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 descended	parataxis
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 caused	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 announced	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 announced	aux:pass
17	announced	announce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 caused	advcl
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 huntsman	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 huntsman	det
20	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 huntsman	amod
21	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 announced	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 descended	parataxis
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 offer	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 offer	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 offer	aux
28	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 asked	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 offer	obj
30	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 offer	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	descend	past	cook			then; again		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	cook not said here				to cook's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
3	cause	past		cook				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition himself=Patient
4	announce speech: other	to-infinitive · passive					as a strange huntsman	vn order-58.3 «NP V S»
5	ask speech: ask	past						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	offer a condition, not said to happen	could	cook	service	poodle			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal service=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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