Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 204
‘Yes,’ said he, ‘but come again in half an hour, and cook the king the soup that he likes so much.’
Who acts: king · What happens: say, come, cook, like · To what, where: soup, 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 (king), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hour | case |
| 13 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 15 hour | det:predet |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hour | det |
| 15 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cook | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cook | cc |
| 18 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cook | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 soup | det |
| 22 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cook | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 likes | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 likes | nsubj |
| 25 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cook | advcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 likes | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | again; hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cook | infinitive | the soup | the king | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent king=Beneficiary soup=Product | ||||
| 4 | like | present | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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