Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 3

The farmer was a sad miser, and knew that his man was very simple-hearted; so he took out threepence, and gave him for every year’s service a penny.

Who acts: farmer, man, year · What happens: be, know, take out, give, service · To what, where: sad miser, threepence, penny, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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, man, year), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miser	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 miser	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 miser	det
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 miser	amod
6	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knew	cc
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 miser	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 hearted	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 man	nmod:poss
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hearted	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hearted	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	17 hearted	advmod
15	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hearted	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 simple	punct
17	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knew	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 took	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 miser	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	threepence	threepence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	iobj
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 service	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 year	det
30	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 service	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 year	case
32	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 penny	det
34	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 miser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the farmer	a sad miser			tree rules
2	know	past	the farmer not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	farmer's man			hearted property	tree rules
4	take out	past	man	threepence			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threepence=Theme
5	give	past	man not said here	a penny	man	for every year's service	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient penny=Theme for service=Asset
6	service		every year				nom service «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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