Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 52

Then he asked his wife for more pudding, and as he ate, he threw the bones under the table.

Who acts: brother · What happens: ask, eat, throw · To what, where: wife, bones, table

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 (brother), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 pudding	case
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 pudding	amod
8	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 ate	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ate	nsubj
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 threw	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	nsubj
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bones	det
18	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 threw	obj
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 table	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	brother		brother's wife		then	for more pudding	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
2	eat	past	brother						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw	past	brother	the bones		the table			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme under table=Destination

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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