Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 57

Then the golden hair streamed forth, and let the boy excuse himself as he might, it was of no use.

Who acts: golden hair, boy, handkerchief · What happens: stream, let, excuse, be · To what, where: boy

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 (golden hair, boy, handkerchief), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 streamed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hair	det
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 streamed	nsubj
5	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 streamed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 streamed	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 excuse	nsubj
12	excuse	excuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 let	parataxis
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 excuse	obj
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 might	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 might	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 excuse	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 might	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 use	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 use	cop
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 use	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 use	det
22	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 might	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 streamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stream	participle	the golden hair		then	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	excuse	present	the boy	boy			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	is	past	handkerchief			of no use	tree rules

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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