Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 208

Cat-skin was brought again before the king, but she still told him that she was only fit to have boots and shoes thrown at her head.

Who acts: dance · What happens: bring, tell, be, have, throw · To what, where: Cat skin, king, boots, head · 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 (dance), 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	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skin	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Cat	punct
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	aux:pass
5	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 told	advmod
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 fit	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fit	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fit	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 fit	advmod
20	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 told	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 fit	xcomp
23	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shoes	cc
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 boots	conj
26	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 boots	acl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thrown	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		Cat skin			before the king; again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before king=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	dance		king		still		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	dance					fit property	tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	dance not said here	boots and shoes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
5	throw	participle		boots and shoes not said here		dance's head			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at head=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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