Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 24

The old man held his tongue, but Heinel said again, ‘What do you want here?’

Who acts: old man, Heinel, you · What happens: hold, say, want · To what, where: tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, Heinel, you), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongue	nmod:poss
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	Heinel	Heinel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	conj
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 want	obj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 want	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 want	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hold	past	the old man	man's tongue			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Heinel			again	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	present · do-support	you		here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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