Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 66
At length the cook took him into his service, and said he might carry wood and water, and rake the cinders together.
Who acts: cook, son · What happens: take, say, carry, rake, service · To what, where: son, length, wood, cinders · 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 (cook, son), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cook | det |
| 4 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 service | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 service | nmod:poss |
| 9 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 carry | aux |
| 15 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carry | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 water | cc |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wood | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rake | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rake | cc |
| 21 | rake | rake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 carry | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cinders | det |
| 23 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rake | obj |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 rake | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the cook | son | length | into son's service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into service=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cook not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry | might | son | wood and water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rake | infinitive | son not said here | the cinders | together property | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cinder=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | service | son | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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