Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 5

This had gone on for a long time, when one day the servant, who took away the dish, was overcome with such curiosity that he could not help carrying the dish into his room.

Who acts: This, servant, king · What happens: go on, take away, overcome, not help, carry · To what, where: dish, servant, room

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 (This, servant, king), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 gone	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 overcome	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 overcome	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	nummod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 overcome	obl:unmarked
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 servant	det
14	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 overcome	nsubj:pass
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 servant	acl:relcl
18	away	away	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dish	det
20	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 overcome	aux:pass
23	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gone	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 curiosity	case
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 curiosity	amod
26	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 overcome	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 help	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 help	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 help	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 help	advmod
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 overcome	advcl
32	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 help	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dish	det
34	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carrying	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 room	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 room	nmod:poss
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carrying	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · perfect	This			time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take away	past	the servant	the dish				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
3	overcome	past · passive		the servant		day	with such curiosity	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not help	could	king					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	carry not said to happen	gerund	king not said here	the dish	king's room			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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