Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 33

As soon as he was gone, there came by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes, and they asked her whether she would buy.

Who acts: care, dishes, Frederick · What happens: be, come, ask, buy · To what, where: Frederick

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (care, dishes, Frederick), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 came	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	cop
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 came	expl
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 pedlars	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 pedlars	det
12	pedlars	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 plates	case
14	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plates	compound
15	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pedlars	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dishes	cc
17	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 plates	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 asked	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	iobj
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 buy	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 buy	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 buy	aux
26	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 asked	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	care			gone property	tree rules
2	come	past			there	by some pedlars with earthenware plates and dishes; soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pedlar=Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	dishes = dish	Frederick			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	buy not said to happen	would	Frederick				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: 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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