Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 1

There was a man who had three sons, the youngest of whom was called Dummling,[*] and was despised, mocked, and sneered at on every occasion.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have, call, despise, mock, sneer · To what, where: three sons, occasion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	acl:relcl
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sons	nummod
8	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 youngest	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youngest	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 sons	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 youngest	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 whom	acl:relcl
16	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 despised	punct
18	[	[	PUNCT	_	23 despised	punct
19	*	*	PUNCT	_	23 despised	punct
20	]	]	PUNCT	_	19 *	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 despised	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 despised	aux:pass
23	despised	despise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mocked	punct
25	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 despised	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sneered	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sneered	cc
28	sneered	sneer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 despised	conj
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 occasion	case
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 occasion	case
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 occasion	det
32	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sneered	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a man		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man	three sons		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	call	past · passive				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
4	despise	past · passive				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
5	mock	participle				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	sneer	participle			every occasion	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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