Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 157

And when she was grown up, the king looked at her and saw that she was just like this late queen: then he said to his courtiers, ‘May I not marry my daughter?

Who acts: king, daughter, I · What happens: grow up, look, see, be, say, not marry · To what, where: daughter, courtiers · 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 (king, daughter, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 grown	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 grown	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grown	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux:pass
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 queen	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 queen	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 queen	cop
18	just	just	ADV	_	22 queen	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 queen	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 queen	det
21	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 queen	amod
22	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	ccomp
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 said	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 queen	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 courtiers	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 courtiers	nmod:poss
29	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 marry	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 marry	punct
32	May	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 marry	aux
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 marry	nsubj
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 marry	advmod
35	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	conj
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nmod:poss
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 marry	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · passive		daughter				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	look	past	the king				at daughter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	see	past	the king not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	daughter				like this late queen	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	king		king's courtiers	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to courtier=Recipient
6	not marry	may	I	my daughter				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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