Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 91

Then said the gardener’s boy: ‘I am grown up, and will go to the wars also, only give me a horse.’

What happens: say, grow up, go, give · To what, where: I, wars, horse, me · 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: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 gardener	case
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 grown	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 grown	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 grown	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 grown	aux:pass
11	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	ccomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 grown	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 wars	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wars	det
19	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	obl
20	also	also	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 give	advmod
23	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 horse	det
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow up	present · passive	I				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	go	future			the wars		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
4	give	infinitive	a horse	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=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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