Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 143

The maiden laughed, and said: ‘He does not stand much on ceremony, but I have already seen by his golden hair that he was no gardener’s boy,’ and then she went and kissed him.

Who acts: maiden, I, gardener · What happens: laugh, say, not stand, see, be, go · To what, where: ceremony, boy, maiden · 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 (maiden, I, gardener), 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 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 stand	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 stand	punct
9	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stand	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stand	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stand	advmod
12	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	much	much	ADV	_	12 stand	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 ceremony	case
15	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stand	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 seen	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
20	already	already	ADV	_	21 seen	advmod
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 laughed	parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 hair	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hair	nmod:poss
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hair	amod
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 boy	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 boy	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 boy	cop
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 gardener	det
30	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 boy	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 gardener	case
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hair	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 boy	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 boy	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 went	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	nsubj
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 kissed	cc
40	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 went	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kissed	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the maiden					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the maiden not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not stand	present · do-support	maiden		ceremony			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ceremony=Location
4	see	present · perfect	I				by maiden's golden hair	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	maiden	no gardener's boy				tree rules
6	go	past	gardener			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	kiss	past	gardener not said here	maiden				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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