Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 26

Then the miser began to beg and promise, and offered money for his liberty; but he did not come up to the musician’s price for some time, and he danced him along brisker and brisker, and the miser bid higher and higher, till at last he offered a round hundred of florins that he had in his purse, and had just gained by cheating some poor fellow.

Who acts: miser, sake · What happens: begin, beg, promise, offer, not come up, dance · To what, where: money, price, other, round hundred, last, florins

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 (miser, sake), 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	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miser	det
3	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 beg	mark
6	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 promise	cc
8	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beg	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 offered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 offered	cc
11	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 liberty	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 liberty	nmod:poss
15	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 offered	conj
22	up	up	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 price	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 musician	det
25	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 price	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 musician	case
27	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 danced	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 danced	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 danced	nsubj
34	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 danced	obj
36	along	along	ADV	_	34 danced	advmod
37	brisker	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 danced	xcomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 brisker	cc
39	brisker	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 brisker	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bid	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bid	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 miser	det
43	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bid	nsubj
44	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
45	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 bid	xcomp
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 higher	cc
47	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 higher	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 offered	punct
49	till	till	SCONJ	_	53 offered	mark
50	at	at	ADP	_	51 last	case
51	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 offered	obl
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 offered	nsubj
53	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 bid	conj
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 hundred	det
55	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 hundred	amod
56	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 offered	obj
57	of	of	ADP	_	58 florins	case
58	florins	florin	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 hundred	nmod
59	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 had	obj
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 had	nsubj
61	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 florins	acl:relcl
62	in	in	ADP	_	64 purse	case
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 purse	nmod:poss
64	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 had	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 gained	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 gained	cc
67	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 gained	aux
68	just	just	ADV	_	69 gained	advmod
69	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 began	parataxis
70	by	by	SCONJ	_	71 cheating	mark
71	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	69 gained	advcl
72	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	74 fellow	det
73	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 fellow	amod
74	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 cheating	obj
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the miser			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	the miser not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	infinitive	the miser not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	offer	past		money			for sake's liberty goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent money=Theme for liberty=Goal
5	not come up	past · do-support	sake		the musician's price	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to price=Initial_Location
6	dance	past	sake	other			along, brisk property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
7	bid	past	the miser				high property	tree rules
8	offer	past	sake	a round hundred of florins	last			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme
9	have	past	sake	florins	sake's purse			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
10	gain	past · perfect						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
11	cheat	gerund		some poor fellow				vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Source

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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