Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 75

So he dressed himself as a poor man, and came secretly to the king’s court, and was scarcely within the doors when the horse began to eat, and the bird to sing, and the princess left off weeping.

Who acts: brother, horse · What happens: dress, come, be, begin, eat, sing · To what, where: brother, court, princess

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, horse), 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 dressed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dressed	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
12	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 court	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 court	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 doors	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 doors	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 doors	cop
21	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	24 doors	advmod
22	within	within	ADP	_	24 doors	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 doors	det
24	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dressed	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 began	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horse	det
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 eat	mark
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bird	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bird	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bird	det
34	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sing	mark
36	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 bird	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 weeping	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 weeping	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 princess	det
40	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 weeping	compound
41	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 princess	acl
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 left	compound:prt
43	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past	brother	brother		as a poor man; princess weeping obl	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	come	past	brother not said here		the king's court	secretly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
3	is	past				within the doors; scarcely property	tree rules
4	begin	past	the horse				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	eat	to-infinitive	the horse not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	brother not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	leave off	participle		the princess not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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