Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 64

Ashputtel’s two sisters were asked to come; so they called her up, and said, ‘Now, comb our hair, brush our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to dance at the king’s feast.’

Who acts: two sisters, sisters, we · What happens: ask, come, call up, say, comb, brush · To what, where: two sisters, ASHPUTTEL, hair, shoes, sashes, feast · 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 (two sisters, sisters, we), 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	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sisters	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Ashputtel	case
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sisters	nummod
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asked	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	aux:pass
6	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 called	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	nsubj
12	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	parataxis
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 called	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comb	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 comb	punct
20	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 comb	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comb	punct
22	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hair	nmod:poss
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comb	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brush	punct
26	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 comb	conj
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoes	nmod:poss
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 brush	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tie	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tie	cc
31	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	conj
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sashes	nmod:poss
33	sashes	sash	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 tie	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 us	case
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tie	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 going	punct
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 going	mark
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 going	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 going	aux
40	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asked	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 dance	mark
42	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 going	xcomp
43	at	at	ADP	_	47 feast	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 king	det
45	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 feast	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 king	case
47	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dance	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 going	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · passive		Ashputtel's two sisters					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ashputtel's two sisters not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call up speech: assert	past	sisters = sister		ASHPUTTEL				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	comb	infinitive		our hair			now		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
6	brush	infinitive		our shoes					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
7	tie	present		our sashes				for us	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sash=Patient
8	go	present · progressive	we						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	dance	to-infinitive	we not said here			the king's feast			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location

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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