Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 77

When he was ascending the stairs with them, the gardener met him, and said: ‘How can you take the king’s daughter a garland of such common flowers?

Who acts: boy, gardener, you · What happens: ascend, meet, say, take · To what, where: stairs, boy, daughter · 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 (boy, gardener, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ascending	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ascending	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ascending	aux
4	ascending	ascend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 met	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stairs	det
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ascending	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ascending	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ascending	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gardener	det
11	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 met	nsubj
12	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 met	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 met	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
19	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 take	advmod
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 take	nsubj
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 king	case
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 garland	det
28	garland	garland	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 flowers	case
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flowers	amod
31	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flowers	amod
32	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 garland	nmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascend	past · progressive	boy	the stairs	with stairs = stair	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory
2	meet	past	the gardener	boy		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the gardener not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take	can	you	the king's daughter		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Theme garland=Destination

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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