Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 8

The king, however, would not give his consent, and said: ‘It is not safe in there; I fear it would fare with you no better than with the others, and you would never come out again.’

Who acts: king, consent, I, you · What happens: not give, say, not be, fear, fare, not come out · To what, where: consent · 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, consent, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 give	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 give	advmod
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 consent	nmod:poss
10	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 give	advcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 safe	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 safe	punct
16	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 safe	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 safe	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 safe	advmod
19	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 there	case
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 safe	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fear	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 fear	nsubj
24	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 give	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fare	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 fare	aux
27	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 fear	ccomp
28	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 better	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 better	nsubj
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 better	advmod
31	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 fare	xcomp
32	than	than	ADP	_	35 others	case
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 others	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 others	det
35	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 better	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 come	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 come	cc
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 come	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 come	aux
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 come	advmod
41	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	conj
42	out	out	ADV	_	41 come	advmod
43	again	again	ADV	_	41 come	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not give	would	the king	king's consent		however property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the king not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	consent			safe property	tree rules
4	fear	present	I				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fare	would	consent			good property	tree rules
6	not come out	would	you		again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	consent		king				nom consent «communication 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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