Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 86

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

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

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	ccomp
12	only	only	ADV	_	15 bride	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bride	det
14	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bride	amod
15	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 maid	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 maid	nsubj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 maid	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 maid	cop
21	merely	merely	ADV	_	25 maid	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 maid	det
23	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 maid	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 waiting	punct
25	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bride	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 bride	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bride	det
29	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bride	amod
30	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 maid	conj
31	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bride	acl
32	by	by	ADP	_	31 stood	obl
33	.	.	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	a false bride				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient
4	is a	past	that	a waiting maid and the true bride			merely property	tree rules
5	stand by	participle		the true bride 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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