Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 22

On the third day the king had ridden out hunting, and the boy went once more and said: ‘I cannot open the door even if I wished, for I have not the key.’

Who acts: king, boy, I · What happens: ride out, go, say, not open, wish, have · To what, where: hunting, door, key · 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, boy, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ridden	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ridden	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ridden	aux
8	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 ridden	compound:prt
10	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ridden	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ridden	parataxis
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 went	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 open	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 open	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 open	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 open	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 open	advmod
25	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 open	obj
28	even	even	ADV	_	31 wished	advmod
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 wished	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 wished	nsubj
31	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 open	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 have	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 open	conj
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 key	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 key	det
38	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ridden	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 ridden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ride out	past · perfect	the king	hunting	day	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Theme
2	go	past	the boy			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not open	can	I	the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
5	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	I			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	have	present	I	the key		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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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