Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 29

Meanwhile the miser crept out of the bush half-naked and in a piteous plight, and began to ponder how he should take his revenge, and serve his late companion some trick.

Who acts: miser, countryman · What happens: creep out, begin, ponder, take, serve, revenge · To what, where: revenge, late companion

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, countryman), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	4 crept	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miser	det
3	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	11 naked	mark
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 naked	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 naked	det
8	bush	bush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 naked	nsubj
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	11 naked	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 half	punct
11	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crept	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 plight	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 plight	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 plight	det
15	piteous	piteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 plight	amod
16	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 naked	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crept	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 ponder	mark
21	ponder	ponder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 take	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ponder	ccomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 revenge	nmod:poss
27	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 serve	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 serve	cc
30	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 crept	parataxis
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 companion	nmod:poss
32	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 companion	amod
33	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 serve	obj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 trick	det
35	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 serve	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	creep out	past	the miser		meanwhile property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the miser not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ponder	to-infinitive	the miser not said here			tree rules
4	take	should	countryman	countryman's revenge		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme
5	serve	infinitive		countryman's late companion		tree rules
6	revenge		countryman			nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=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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