Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 44

Thereupon Dummling asked to have her for his wife; but the king did not like the son-in-law, and made all manner of excuses and said he must first produce a man who could drink a cellarful of wine.

Who acts: Dummling, king, man · What happens: ask, have, not like, make, say, produce · To what, where: goose, son, law, manner, man, cellarful · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, king, man), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 asked	advmod
2	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 like	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 like	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 like	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 like	advmod
16	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 son	det
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	obj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 law	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 law	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 in	punct
22	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 son	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 manner	det
27	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 excuses	case
29	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 manner	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 produce	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 produce	aux
34	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 produce	advmod
35	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 produce	obj
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 drink	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 drink	aux
40	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 man	acl:relcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cellarful	det
42	cellarful	cellarful	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drink	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 wine	case
44	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cellarful	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Dummling			thereupon property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dummling not said here	goose		for Dummling's wife	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	not like	past · do-support	the king	the son	law		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme
4	make	past		all manner of excuses			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset manner=Product
5	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	produce	must	king	a man		first property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Result
7	drink	could	a man	a cellarful of wine			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellarful=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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