Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 131

‘He is at work in the garden; the queer creature has been at the festival too, and only came home yesterday evening; he has likewise shown my children three golden apples which he has won.’

Who acts: king, queer creature, three golden apples · What happens: be, come, show, win · To what, where: work, festival, children

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 (king, queer creature, three golden apples), 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	_	5 work	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 work	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 work	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 work	case
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 festival	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 creature	det
11	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 festival	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 festival	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 festival	cop
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 festival	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 festival	det
17	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	conj
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 festival	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 work	conj
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 evening	compound
25	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl:unmarked
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 shown	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shown	nsubj
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 shown	aux
29	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	30 shown	advmod
30	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 work	conj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 children	nmod:poss
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shown	obj
33	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 apples	nummod
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 apples	amod
35	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shown	obl
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 won	nsubj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 won	nsubj
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 won	aux
39	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 apples	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	king		work and the festival		in the garden	tree rules
2	is	present · perfect	the queer creature		the festival			tree rules
3	come	past	king not said here			evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	show	present · perfect	king	my children			three golden apples obl; likewise property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
5	win	present · perfect	three golden apples					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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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