Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson, sentence 2

His son and his son’s wife were disgusted at this, so the old grandfather at last had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in an earthenware bowl, and not even enough of it.

Who acts: old grandfather, son · What happens: disgust, have, sit, give · To what, where: son, this, corner, food, man, earthenware bowl

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 (old grandfather, son), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disgusted	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wife	cc
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	7 wife	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 son	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 disgusted	aux:pass
9	disgusted	disgust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 disgusted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grandfather	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grandfather	amod
16	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grandfather	nmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 disgusted	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sit	mark
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 corner	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 corner	det
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
25	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 stove	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stove	det
27	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 corner	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gave	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	nsubj
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 disgusted	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	iobj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 food	nmod:poss
34	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 bowl	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bowl	det
37	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bowl	compound
38	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 enough	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 enough	cc
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 enough	advmod
42	even	even	ADV	_	43 enough	advmod
43	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 gave	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 enough	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 disgusted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	disgust	past · passive		man's son and man's son's wife		this	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	have	past	the old grandfather at last				tree rules
3	sit	to-infinitive	the old grandfather at last not said here			the corner behind the stove	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
4	give	past	son	man's food	man	a earthenware bowl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=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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