Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson, sentence 11

Then they took the old grandfather to the table, and henceforth always let him eat with them, and likewise said nothing if he did spill a little of anything.

Who acts: knees, grandfather · What happens: take, let, eat, say, spill · To what, where: old grandfather, grandfather, nothing, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Old Man and His Grandson. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knees, grandfather), 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 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grandfather	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grandfather	amod
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 table	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
12	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	14 let	advmod
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	22 said	advmod
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 said	obj
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 spill	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spill	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 spill	aux
27	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 little	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spill	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 anything	case
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 little	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	knees = knee		the old grandfather	then	to the table	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument grandfather=Destination
2	let	infinitive		grandfather			always, henceforth property	tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	grandfather not said here				with knees = knee	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	knees = knee not said here	nothing			likewise property	tree rules
5	spill a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	grandfather	a little				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=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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