Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 171

So the huntsmen took it up, and the maiden awoke and was greatly frightened, and said, ‘I am a poor child that has neither father nor mother left; have pity on me and take me with you.’

Who acts: huntsmen, maiden, I, poor child · What happens: take up, awake, frighten, say, be, have · To what, where: SKIN, poor child, father, pity, me · 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 (huntsmen, maiden, I, poor child), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsmen	det
3	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 awoke	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 awoke	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 awoke	nsubj
11	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 frightened	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 frightened	aux:pass
14	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	15 frightened	advmod
15	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 awoke	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 child	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 child	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 child	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 child	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 child	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 child	amod
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	ccomp
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 child	acl:relcl
28	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	29 father	det
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	obj
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 mother	cc
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 father	conj
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 father	acl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	parataxis
35	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 have	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 take	cc
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 have	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 take	obj
41	with	with	ADP	_	42 you	case
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 take	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take up	past	the huntsmen	SKIN			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	awake	past	the maiden				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	frighten	past · passive	the maiden not said here			greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	say speech: assert	past	the huntsmen not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	I	a poor child			tree rules
6	have	present	a poor child	neither father nor mother			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
7	leave	participle		neither father nor mother not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	have	infinitive		pity		on me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
9	take	infinitive			me	with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination

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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