Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 10

And the same little old man encountered him also, and begged him for something to eat and drink.

Who acts: same little old man · What happens: encounter, beg, eat, drink · To what, where: eldest, man

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same little old man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 encountered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encountered	nsubj
7	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 encountered	obj
9	also	also	ADV	_	7 encountered	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 encountered	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 begged	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 something	case
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 begged	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drink	cc
19	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 eat	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 encountered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	encounter	past	the same little old man	eldest = eld			vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	beg speech: request	past	the same little old man not said here		man	for something	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient for something=Topic
3	eat	to-infinitive	the same little old man not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive	the same little old man not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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