Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 85

When they had eaten and drunk, and were very merry, the old king told all the story, as one that he had once heard of, and asked the true waiting-maid what she thought ought to be done to anyone who would behave thus.

Who acts: dresses, old king, king, maid, anyone · What happens: eat, be, tell, hear, ask, think · To what, where: story, true waiting maid · 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 (dresses, old king, king, maid), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drunk	cc
6	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 merry	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 merry	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 merry	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 merry	advmod
11	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 king	amod
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 story	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 told	ccomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 heard	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	aux
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 heard	advmod
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 one	acl
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 heard	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 asked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 asked	cc
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 maid	det
33	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 maid	amod
34	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 maid	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 waiting	punct
36	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asked	obj
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 done	obj
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 thought	nsubj
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 what	acl:relcl
40	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 done	aux
41	to	to	PART	_	43 done	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 done	aux:pass
43	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 asked	ccomp
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 anyone	case
45	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 done	obl:agent
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 behave	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 behave	aux
48	behave	behave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 anyone	acl:relcl
49	thus	thus	ADV	_	48 behave	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	dresses = dress				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	dresses = dress not said here			merry property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old king	all story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	hear	past · perfect	king			once property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	ask speech: ask	past	the old king not said here		the true waiting maid		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient clause=Topic
6	think speech: other	past	maid				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	do not said to happen	ought · passive	anyone				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	behave	would				thus property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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