Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 24

The boy, who wanted to have his ball back, cast all thought to the winds, and brought the key.

Who acts: boy · What happens: want, have back, cast, bring · To what, where: ball, thought, winds, key

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), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ball	nmod:poss
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cast	punct
12	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 thought	det
14	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cast	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 winds	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 winds	det
17	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cast	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brought	cc
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wanted	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 key	det
22	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	the boy			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	boy's ball		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
3	cast	infinitive	the boy not said here	all thought	the winds	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent thought=Theme to wind=Destination
4	bring	past	the boy not said here	the key		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent key=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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