Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 1

A merchant, who had three daughters, was once setting out upon a journey; but before he went he asked each daughter what gift he should bring back for her.

Who acts: merchant, gift · What happens: have, set out, go, ask, bring back · To what, where: three daughters, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, gift), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 setting	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 merchant	acl:relcl
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 daughters	nummod
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 merchant	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 setting	aux
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 setting	advmod
11	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 setting	compound:prt
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 journey	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 journey	det
15	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 setting	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 setting	parataxis
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	nsubj
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 went	conj
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 daughter	det
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 asked	iobj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 bring	obj
26	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bring	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bring	aux
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 asked	ccomp
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 bring	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 setting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a merchant	three daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	set out	past · progressive	a merchant			upon a journey; once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	merchant				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	merchant		each daughter		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
5	bring back	should	gift			for her = she	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=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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