Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 22

The servant refused everything, and only asked for a horse and some money for travelling, as he had a mind to see the world and go about a little.

Who acts: servant, money, king, mind · What happens: refuse, ask, travel, have, see, go about · To what, where: everything, mind, world, little

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, money, king, mind), 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 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refused	nsubj
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 refused	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 asked	advmod
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 refused	parataxis
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 horse	det
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 money	cc
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 money	det
14	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horse	conj
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 travelling	mark
16	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 money	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 mind	det
22	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 see	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 go	cc
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 see	conj
29	about	about	ADV	_	31 little	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 little	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 go	obl:unmarked
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the servant	everything		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			for a horse and some money	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	travel	gerund	some money not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	king	a mind		tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	a mind not said here	the world		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
6	go about	present	a mind not said here	a little		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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