Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 1

An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit for work.

Who acts: honest farmer, that · What happens: have, be, grow · To what, where: ass, faithful servant, farmer

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest farmer, that), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 farmer	amod
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 had	advmod
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ass	det
7	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 servant	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 servant	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 servant	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 servant	det
12	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 servant	amod
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ass	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 servant	nmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 years	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 years	amod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 years	amod
19	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 servant	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 growing	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 growing	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 growing	aux
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 growing	advmod
24	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 had	conj
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 growing	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 unfit	cc
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 day	det
28	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 unfit	obl:unmarked
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 unfit	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 unfit	cc
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 unfit	advmod
32	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 old	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 work	case
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 unfit	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a honest farmer	a ass			once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Patient
2	is a	past · perfect	that	a faithful servant	farmer	year		tree rules
3	grow	past · progressive	a honest farmer not said here			now	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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