Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 16

Then she asked if he required any huntsmen, and if he would take all of them into his service.

Who acts: desire, father · What happens: ask, require, take, service · To what, where: huntsmen, all, service

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 required	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 required	nsubj
6	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	ccomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 huntsmen	det
8	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 required	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 take	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	ccomp
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 take	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 all	nmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 service	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 service	nmod:poss
20	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	desire			then	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	require a condition, not said to happen	past	father	any huntsmen			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme huntsman=Precondition
3	take a condition, not said to happen	would	father	all	father's service		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent all=Theme into service=Destination
4	service		father				nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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