Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 66

Then the huntsman pitied them, and told the miller to drive them back to him, and when they came, he gave them some of the good salad to eat.

Who acts: huntsman, miller, stripes · What happens: pity, tell, drive back, come, give, eat · To what, where: stripes, miller, huntsman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, miller, stripes), 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 pitied	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsman	det
3	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pitied	nsubj
4	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pitied	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pitied	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 miller	det
10	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 drive	mark
12	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drive	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 drive	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drive	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 gave	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 came	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gave	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	nsubj
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pitied	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gave	obj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 gave	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 salad	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 salad	det
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 salad	amod
30	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 some	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 eat	mark
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 gave	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pitied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	pity	past	the huntsman	stripes = stripe		then	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	the huntsman not said here	the miller			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent miller=Recipient clause=Topic
3	drive back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the miller not said here	stripes = stripe	huntsman		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Trajectory
4	come	past	stripes = stripe				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	huntsman	stripes = stripe			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient some=Theme
6	eat	to-infinitive	huntsman not said here				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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/66/