Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 71

The cook, however, had pity on him, and exchanged him for the gardener’s boy.

Who acts: cook · What happens: have, exchange · To what, where: pity, cook

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cook	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exchanged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 exchanged	cc
12	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 exchanged	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 boy	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gardener	det
16	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boy	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 gardener	case
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exchanged	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the cook	pity				on king; however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	exchange	past	the cook not said here	cook				for the gardener's boy	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme for boy=Co-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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