Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 69

And the chamberlain told him all--how he had given him a sleeping draught, and how a poor maiden had come and spoken to him in his chamber, and was to come again that night.

Who acts: chamberlain, poor maiden · What happens: tell, give, sleep, come, speak · To what, where: prince, chamberlain, chamber · 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 (chamberlain, poor maiden), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chamberlain	det
3	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 him	det
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 given	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 given	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 given	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 given	aux
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 given	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 draught	det
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 draught	amod
15	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 given	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 come	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 maiden	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 maiden	amod
21	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spoken	cc
25	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 come	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spoken	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 chamber	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 chamber	nmod:poss
30	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spoken	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 come	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 come	cc
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
34	to	to	PART	_	35 come	mark
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
36	again	again	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 night	det
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the chamberlain		prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	give	past · perfect · passive		chamberlain	prince			tree rules
3	sleep	gerund						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past · perfect	a poor maiden					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	speak speech: other	participle	a poor maiden not said here		chamberlain	chamberlain's chamber		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
6	come	past	the chamberlain not said here				again; night	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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