Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 108

Then the Evil One had, whether he liked it or no, to fetch water, wash the old Soldier, comb his hair out, and cut his nails.

Who acts: Evil One, BEARSKIN · What happens: have, like, fetch, wash, comb out, cut · To what, where: coat, water, old Soldier, hair, nails

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 (Evil One, BEARSKIN), 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	5 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 One	det
3	Evil	Evil	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 One	compound
4	One	One	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 liked	punct
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 liked	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 fetch	cc
12	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	15 fetch	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fetch	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fetch	mark
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 liked	conj
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wash	punct
18	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fetch	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Soldier	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Soldier	amod
21	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wash	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 comb	punct
23	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wash	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hair	nmod:poss
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comb	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	23 comb	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cut	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cut	cc
29	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nails	nmod:poss
31	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cut	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	the Evil One		then	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	like	past	BEARSKIN	coat		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	fetch	to-infinitive	BEARSKIN not said here	water		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	wash	infinitive	BEARSKIN not said here	the old Soldier		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
5	comb out	infinitive	BEARSKIN not said here	BEARSKIN's hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
6	cut	past	the Evil One not said here	BEARSKIN's nails		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nail=Product

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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