Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 85

He took them to the gardener, and said: ‘I present them to your children, they can play with them.’

Who acts: boy, I, pieces · What happens: take, say, present, play · To what, where: pieces, gardener, children · 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, I, pieces), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 gardener	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gardener	det
6	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 present	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 present	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 present	nsubj
13	present	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 present	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 children	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 children	nmod:poss
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 present	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 play	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 play	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 play	aux
21	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 present	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 play	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	boy	pieces = piece	the gardener		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to gardener=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	boy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	present	present	I	pieces = piece	your children		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to child=Recipient
4	play	can	pieces = piece			with children = child	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=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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