Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 38

The king said yes, if he was skilful and could get game for him, he should come to him, but that deer had never taken up their quarters in any part of the district or country.

Who acts: king · What happens: say, be, get, come, not take up · To what, where: game, cook, deer, part · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king), 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	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 skilful	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 skilful	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 skilful	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 skilful	cop
9	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 skilful	conj
13	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taken	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 taken	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 taken	mark
25	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 taken	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 taken	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 taken	advmod
28	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 taken	compound:prt
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 quarters	nmod:poss
31	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 taken	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 part	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 part	det
34	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taken	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 district	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 district	det
37	district	district	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 part	nmod
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 country	cc
39	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 district	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	king				skilful property	tree rules
3	get	could	king not said here	game			for king	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent game=Theme for he=Beneficiary
4	come	should	king		cook			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	not take up	past · perfect · passive		deer		any part of the district or country		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme quarter=Destination

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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