Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 82

Then he called his son, and told him that he had only the false bride, for that she was merely a waiting-maid, while the true one stood by.

Who acts: king, that · What happens: call, tell, have, be, stand by · To what, where: son, king, false bride, waiting maid, true one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, that), 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	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 bride	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bride	det
15	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bride	amod
16	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 maid	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 that	case
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 maid	nsubj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 maid	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 maid	cop
22	merely	merely	ADV	_	26 maid	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 maid	det
24	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 maid	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 waiting	punct
26	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 one	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 one	det
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 one	amod
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 maid	appos
32	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 one	acl
33	by	by	ADP	_	32 stood	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	king		king's son	then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	king	the false bride				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient
4	is a	past	that	a waiting maid			merely property	tree rules
5	stand by	participle		the true one not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «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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