Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 1

A farmer had a faithful and diligent servant, who had worked hard for him three years, without having been paid any wages.

Who acts: farmer, faithful servant · What happens: have, work, pay · To what, where: faithful servant, wages

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, faithful servant), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 servant	det
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 servant	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 diligent	cc
7	diligent	diligent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 faithful	conj
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worked	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 worked	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worked	aux
12	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 servant	acl:relcl
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 worked	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 worked	obl
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 worked	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 paid	punct
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 paid	mark
20	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 paid	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 paid	aux:pass
22	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 worked	conj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 wages	det
24	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 paid	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a farmer	a faithful servant			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
2	work	past · perfect	a faithful servant		year	for farmer; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
3	pay	gerund · perfect · passive	a faithful servant not said here	any wages			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: wage=Asset

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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