Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 3

But he had a strange custom; every day after dinner, when the table was cleared, and no one else was present, a trusty servant had to bring him one more dish.

Who acts: news, one, trusty servant · What happens: have, clear, be, bring · To what, where: strange custom, table, one more dish, news

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, one, trusty 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	6 custom	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 custom	amod
6	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cleared	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 cleared	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cleared	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cleared	aux:pass
17	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 day	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 present	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 present	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 present	nsubj
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 one	advmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 present	cop
24	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 servant	det
27	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 servant	amod
28	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 present	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 bring	mark
31	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bring	obj
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 dish	nummod
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 dish	amod
35	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	news	a strange custom		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient
2	clear	past · passive		the table				vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	is	past	no one				present property	tree rules
4	have	past	a trusty servant					tree rules
5	bring	to-infinitive	a trusty servant not said here	one more dish	news			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination dish=Theme

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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