Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson, sentence 6

Then they brought him a wooden bowl for a few half-pence, out of which he had to eat.

Who acts: hands, grandfather · What happens: bring, have, eat · To what, where: wooden bowl, grandfather

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 (hands, 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 brought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bowl	amod
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	13 pence	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pence	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pence	amod
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 pence	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
13	pence	pence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	out	out	ADP	_	17 which	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	hands = hand	a wooden bowl	grandfather	then	for a few half pence	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bowl=Theme
2	have	past	grandfather					tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	grandfather not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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