Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 56

When he came he already knew everything, and said: ‘Take the handkerchief off.’

Who acts: boy · What happens: come, know, say, take off · To what, where: everything, handkerchief · 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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 knew	advmod
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 knew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
13	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 handkerchief	det
15	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Take	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	13 Take	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	past	boy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	boy	everything	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take off	infinitive		the handkerchief	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=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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