Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 9

Then he was told about Doctor Knowall who lived in such and such a village, and must know what had become of the money.

What happens: tell, live, know, become · To what, where: peasant, such village · 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: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 Knowall	case
6	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Knowall	nmod:desc
7	Knowall	Knowall	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	15 village	case
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 village	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 village	cc
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 village	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 village	det
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	parataxis
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 become	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 become	aux
22	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 know	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 money	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 money	det
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 become	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	peasant		then	about Knowall Doctor	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	live	past		such such village			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
3	know	must					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	become	past · perfect				of the money	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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