Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 38

The coast once clear, our travellers soon sat down and dispatched what the robbers had left, with as much eagerness as if they had not expected to eat again for a month.

Who acts: coast, robbers · What happens: sit down, dispatch, leave, not expect, eat · To what, where: robbers

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 (coast, robbers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coast	det
2	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 clear	advmod
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 coast	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 travellers	punct
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 travellers	nmod:poss
7	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 coast	conj
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 sat	advmod
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dispatched	cc
12	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 dispatched	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 robbers	det
15	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 left	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 left	aux
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 what	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eagerness	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 eagerness	case
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eagerness	amod
22	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dispatched	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 expected	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 expected	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 expected	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 expected	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 expected	advmod
28	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 dispatched	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 eat	mark
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 expected	xcomp
31	again	again	ADV	_	30 eat	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 month	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 month	det
34	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the coast and our travellers			soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dispatch	past	the coast and our travellers not said here			with much eagerness	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent what=Patient with eagerness=Instrument
3	leave	past · perfect · passive		the robbers			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not expect	past · perfect · passive		robbers = robber			tree rules
5	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here		again; month		vn eat-39.1-1 «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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