Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 77

In the fourth year he came to an inn where the landlord would not take him in, and refused even to give him a place in his stables, lest the horses should be frightened and become restive.

Who acts: soldier, landlord · What happens: come, not take, refuse, not give, frighten, become · To what, where: inn, soldier, place, stables, horses

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 (soldier, landlord), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 inn	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 inn	det
9	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 take	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 landlord	det
12	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 take	advmod
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 inn	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	in	in	ADV	_	15 take	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 refused	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 refused	cc
20	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
21	even	even	ADV	_	20 refused	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 refused	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 place	det
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 stables	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 stables	nmod:poss
29	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 frightened	punct
31	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	36 frightened	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 horses	det
33	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 frightened	nsubj:pass
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 frightened	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 frightened	aux:pass
36	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 refused	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 become	cc
38	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 frightened	conj
39	restive	restive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 become	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	soldier			a inn	year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
2	not take	would	the landlord		soldier				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	refuse	past	soldier not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not give	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	a place	soldier	soldier's stables			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Theme
5	frighten	should · passive		the horses					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	become	infinitive						restive property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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