Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 75

Then she saw the boy, and cried to him: ‘Boy, bring me a wreath of flowers.’

Who acts: iron, Boy · What happens: see, cry, bring · To what, where: boy, wreath, me · 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 (iron, Boy), 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	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
13	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bring	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Boy	punct
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 bring	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wreath	det
18	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wreath	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	see	past	iron	the boy		then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	iron not said here		boy		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring	infinitive	Boy	a wreath of flowers	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination wreath=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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