Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 63

When the brother came home, they asked him about the castle of Stromberg, and he told them he would look on his own maps as soon as he had eaten and appeased his hunger.

Who acts: brother, provisions · What happens: come, ask, tell, look, eat, appease · To what, where: brother, provisions, hunger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, provisions), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Stromberg	case
14	Stromberg	Stromberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 castle	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 look	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 look	aux
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	ccomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 maps	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 maps	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 maps	amod
26	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 look	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 soon	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 look	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 eaten	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eaten	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 eaten	aux
32	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 soon	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 appeased	cc
34	appeased	appease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 eaten	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hunger	nmod:poss
36	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 appeased	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the brother			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	provisions = provision		brother	about the castle of Stromberg	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about castle=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	brother		provisions = provision		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	look	would	brother			on brother's own maps; soon property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on map=Theme
5	eat	past · perfect	brother				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	appease	past	brother not said here	brother's hunger			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer
7	hunger		brother				nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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