Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 70

Then the king had the cook called before him and scolded him, and asked how he could take such a boy as that into his service; and that he was to send him away at once.

Who acts: king · What happens: have, call, scold, ask, take, be · To what, where: cook, king, boy, service · 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 (king), 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	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cook	acl
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scolded	cc
11	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 scolded	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 take	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	ccomp
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 boy	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 that	case
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 take	obl
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 service	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 service	nmod:poss
27	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 send	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 send	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 send	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 send	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 send	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 send	mark
34	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 send	obj
36	away	away	ADV	_	34 send	advmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 once	case
38	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 send	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	the cook		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Patient
2	call	participle		the cook not said here		before king		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scold	past	the king not said here	king				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the king not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	could	king	such boy	king's service		as that	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme into service=Destination
6	is	past	king				away, send property	tree rules
7	service		king					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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