Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 43

Presently the father came home and sat down to his dinner; he asked, ‘Where is my son?’

Who acts: father · What happens: come, sit down, ask, be · To what, where: son

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dinner	nmod:poss
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Where	punct
17	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 son	advmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 son	cop
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 son	nmod:poss
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asked	vocative
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the father		home, presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit down	past	the father not said here		to father's dinner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	father			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		my son		tree rules

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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