Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 20

‘Took nothing; had something given me.’

What happens: take, have, give · To what, where: nothing, something, me

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Took	punct
2	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 Took	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Took	conj
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 had	obj
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 something	acl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 given	iobj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Took	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	take	past	nothing		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	have	past	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	give	participle		me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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