Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 49

His parents meanwhile had died, and as he had no longer any home to go to he paid a visit to his brothers, and asked them to give him shelter until war broke out again.

Who acts: parents, Dummerly, war · What happens: die, have, go, pay, ask, give · To what, where: home, visit, parents, Dummerly

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 (parents, Dummerly, war), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	nsubj
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 died	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	aux
5	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 died	parataxis
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 longer	advmod
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 had	advmod
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 home	det
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 home	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 paid	case
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 paid	nsubj
19	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 go	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 visit	det
21	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paid	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 brothers	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brothers	nmod:poss
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 visit	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 asked	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 give	xcomp
33	until	until	SCONJ	_	35 broke	mark
34	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 broke	nsubj
35	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 shelter	advcl
36	out	out	ADP	_	35 broke	compound:prt
37	again	again	ADV	_	35 broke	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	Dummerly's parents				meanwhile property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	have	past	Dummerly	any home			long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
3	go	to-infinitive	Dummerly not said here	any home not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pay	past	Dummerly	a visit			to Dummerly's brothers	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
5	ask speech: ask	past	Dummerly not said here		parents = parent			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dummerly not said here		Dummerly			tree rules
7	shelter	infinitive	Dummerly not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	break out	past	war			again		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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