Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 36

After Hans had had her some time, he said: ‘Wife, I am going out to work and earn some money for us; go into the field and cut the corn that we may have some bread.’

Who acts: Hans, child, Wife, corn · What happens: have, say, go out, work, earn, go · To what, where: Elsie, money, field, corn, bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, child, Wife, corn), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 her	aux
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obl
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
13	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Wife	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 going	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 earn	cc
22	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 work	conj
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 money	det
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 earn	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 us	case
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 earn	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 work	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 field	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 field	det
31	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cut	cc
33	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 work	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 corn	det
35	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cut	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 have	nsubj
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
38	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 have	aux
39	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 corn	acl:relcl
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 bread	det
41	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 have	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Hans	Elsie		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	child					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go out	present · progressive	Wife				out property	tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	Wife not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	earn	infinitive	Wife not said here	some money			for us	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent money=Theme for we=Beneficiary
6	go	infinitive	Wife not said here		the field			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
7	cut	infinitive	Wife not said here	the corn				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product
8	have	may	the corn	some bread				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

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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