Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 34

So away he was taken; but as he stood on the steps he said, ‘My Lord Judge, grant me one last request.’

Who acts: judge · What happens: take, stand, say, grant · To what, where: judge, Lord Judge, steps, one last request, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judge), 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	_	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	5 taken	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taken	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux:pass
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 stood	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stood	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 steps	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 steps	det
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stood	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 steps	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Judge	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Judge	punct
18	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Judge	nmod:poss
19	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Judge	compound
20	Judge	Judge	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grant	punct
22	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stood	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 grant	obj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 request	nummod
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 request	amod
26	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grant	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		judge		away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
2	stand	past	judge	My Lord Judge		on the steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	judge	the steps not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent step=Topic
4	grant	infinitive	judge not said here	one last request	me		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal request=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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