Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 112

He was compelled to sit down between the two eldest, and they offered him wine, and heaped his plate with the choicest morsels; for they thought they had never seen any one so handsome before.

Who acts: daughters · What happens: compel, sit down, offer, heap, think, not see · To what, where: BEARSKIN, eldest, wine, plate, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (daughters), 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	3 compelled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 compelled	aux:pass
3	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 compelled	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 sit	compound:prt
7	between	between	ADP	_	10 eldest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eldest	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eldest	nsubj
10	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 sit	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 offered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 offered	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 offered	nsubj
14	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 compelled	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 offered	iobj
16	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 offered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heaped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heaped	cc
19	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 offered	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 plate	nmod:poss
21	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heaped	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 morsels	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 morsels	det
24	choicest	choice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 morsels	amod
25	morsels	morsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heaped	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 compelled	parataxis
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seen	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 seen	advmod
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 thought	ccomp
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	obj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 handsome	advmod
37	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 seen	xcomp
38	before	before	ADV	_	33 seen	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 compelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	compel	past · passive		BEARSKIN				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	sit down	to-infinitive				the eldest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between eld=Location
3	offer	past	daughters = daughter	wine	BEARSKIN			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal wine=Theme
4	heap	past	daughters = daughter not said here	BEARSKIN's plate			with the choicest morsels	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent plate=Destination with morsel=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	daughters = daughter					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not see	past · perfect	daughters = daughter	any one			before, handsome property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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