Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 23

The fourth had to carry in a dish that was covered, and the lord told the doctor that he was to show his skill, and guess what was beneath the cover.

Who acts: fourth, lord · What happens: have, carry, cover, tell, be, guess · To what, where: dish, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourth, lord), 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 fourth	det
2	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 carry	mark
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 dish	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dish	det
8	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 covered	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 covered	aux:pass
11	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dish	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lord	det
15	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 doctor	det
18	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 show	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 show	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 show	cop
22	to	to	PART	_	23 show	mark
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 skill	nmod:poss
25	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 guess	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 guess	cc
28	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 cover	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 cover	cop
31	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	33 cover	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cover	det
33	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 guess	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fourth				tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	the fourth not said here		a dish		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in dish=Location
3	cover	past · passive		a dish			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	past	the lord	the doctor			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient clause=Topic
5	is not said to happen	past	lord			show property	tree rules
6	guess	present	the fourth not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past				beneath the cover	tree rules

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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