Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 83

He wanted to run out, but she held him by the arm, and gave him a handful of ducats.

Who acts: boy, daughter · What happens: want, run out, hold, give · To what, where: boy, handful

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, daughter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 run	mark
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 held	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	nsubj
9	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 held	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 arm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 arm	det
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 handful	det
19	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 ducats	case
21	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 handful	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	boy				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	run out not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	past	daughter	boy		by the arm	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by arm=Location
4	give	past	boy not said here	a handful of ducats	boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=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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