Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 21

The next day he again went and asked for his ball; the wild man said: ‘Open my door,’ but the boy would not.

Who acts: boy, wild man · What happens: go, ask, say, open · To what, where: door · 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 (boy, wild man), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
5	again	again	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 ball	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ball	nmod:poss
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Open	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Open	punct
19	Open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 door	nmod:poss
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Open	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Open	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 Open	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 would	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boy	det
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 would	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 would	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	boy		again; day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	boy not said here			for boy's ball	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the wild man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	open	infinitive		my door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

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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