Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 89

When they had eaten and drank, and were very merry, the old king said he would tell them a tale.

Who acts: dresses, old king, king · What happens: eat, drink, be, say, tell · To what, where: tale, dresses · 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 (dresses, old king, king), 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 drank	cc
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 merry	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 merry	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 merry	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 merry	advmod
11	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drank	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	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 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 merry	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tale	det
22	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
23	.	.	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	drink	past	dresses = dress not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past				merry property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the old king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	would	king	a tale	dresses = dress		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tale=Topic

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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