Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 108

The daughter wanted to hear who the strange knight was, but the king did not know, and said: ‘He followed the enemy, and I did not see him again.’

Who acts: daughter, strange knight, king, I · What happens: want, hear, be, not know, say, follow · To what, where: enemy, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, strange knight, king, I), 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 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	5 hear	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knight	det
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knight	amod
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 who	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 who	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 know	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 followed	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 followed	punct
23	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 followed	nsubj
24	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 enemy	det
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 followed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 see	advmod
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	obj
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 see	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	want	past	the daughter			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the daughter not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the strange knight			tree rules
4	not know	past · do-support	the king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past	the daughter not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	follow	past	king	the enemy		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme
7	not see	past · do-support	I	king	again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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