Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 14

Two days after there came by a travelling fiddler, who began to play under the window and beg alms; and when the king heard him, he said, ‘Let him come in.’

Who acts: travelling fiddler, king · What happens: come, travel, begin, play, hear, say · To what, where: window, man, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelling fiddler, king), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 came	expl
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 fiddler	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fiddler	det
8	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 fiddler	amod
9	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fiddler	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 play	mark
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 window	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 window	det
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 play	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 alms	cc
19	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 alms	compound
20	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 window	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 heard	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Let	punct
32	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 Let	punct
33	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 Let	obj
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 Let	xcomp
36	in	in	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 Let	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past			there	day	by a travelling fiddler	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fiddler=Location
2	travel	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	a travelling fiddler					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	to-infinitive	a travelling fiddler not said here		the window and beg alms			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	the king	man				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	let	infinitive		king				tree rules
8	come in	infinitive	king not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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