Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 87

She again gave him a handful of ducats, but he would not keep them, and gave them to the gardener for playthings for his children.

Who acts: daughter, boy · What happens: give, not keep · To what, where: handful, boy, ducats

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 (daughter, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
2	again	again	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handful	det
6	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ducats	case
8	ducats	ducat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 handful	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 keep	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keep	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 keep	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 keep	advmod
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keep	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gave	cc
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	iobj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 gardener	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gardener	det
22	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 playthings	case
24	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gardener	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 children	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 children	nmod:poss
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gave	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	daughter	a handful of ducats	boy	again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme
2	not keep	would	boy	ducats = ducat				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	give	past	daughter not said here		ducats = ducat		to the gardener for playthings; for boy's children	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme to gardener=Recipient for child=Asset

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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