Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 65

The people about court did not at all know what use they could make of him, but they liked him, and told him to stay.

Who acts: people · What happens: not know, make, like, tell, stay · To what, where: use, son · 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 (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:2502): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 know	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 court	case
4	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 know	advmod
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 at	fixed
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	11 use	det
11	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 make	aux
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 liked	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 liked	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 liked	nsubj
20	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 liked	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 liked	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stay	mark
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the people about court				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	could	people	what use		of son	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
3	like	past	people	son			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	people not said here		son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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