Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 41

When they had eaten a very scanty meal they went to bed; but the fiddler called her up very early in the morning to clean the house.

Who acts: servants, fiddler · What happens: eat, go, call up, clean · To what, where: scanty meal, princess, house

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 (servants, fiddler), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meal	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	8 meal	advmod
7	scanty	scanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meal	compound
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 meal	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 bed	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fiddler	det
16	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 called	compound:prt
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 early	advmod
21	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 called	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 morning	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 morning	det
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 clean	mark
26	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 called	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clean	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	servants = servant	a scanty meal				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
2	go	past	servants = servant	a scanty meal not said here			to bed	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meal=Theme
3	call up speech: assert	past	the fiddler		princess	morning	early property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	clean	to-infinitive	the fiddler not said here	the house				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=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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