Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 90

So he began, and told all the story of the princess, as if it was one that he had once heard; and he asked the true waiting-maid what she thought ought to be done to anyone who would behave thus.

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

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	king				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here	all story of the princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	story			as one	tree rules
4	hear	past · perfect · passive		that		once property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask	past	king		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: «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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