Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 46

After this the robbers never dared to go back to the house; but the musicians were so pleased with their quarters that they took up their abode there; and there they are, I dare say, at this very day.

Who acts: robbers, musicians, I · What happens: not dare, not go back, be, take up, dare, say · To what, where: abode · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (robbers, musicians, I), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 robbers	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dared	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 dared	advmod
6	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dared	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 pleased	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 pleased	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 musicians	det
16	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pleased	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pleased	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 pleased	advmod
19	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dared	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 quarters	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 quarters	nmod:poss
22	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pleased	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 took	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pleased	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 took	compound:prt
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 abode	nmod:poss
28	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 took	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 are	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 are	cc
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 are	expl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 are	nsubj
34	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dared	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 dare	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 dare	nsubj
37	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 are	conj
38	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 dare	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 day	punct
40	at	at	ADP	_	43 day	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 day	det
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 day	advmod
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 say	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dare	past	the robbers					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go back	to-infinitive	the robbers not said here				to the house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
3	is	past	the musicians				with robbers's quarters; pleased property	tree rules
4	take up	past	robbers = robber	robbers's abode	there			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme
5	does	present	robbers = robber		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dare	present	I					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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