Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 57

Thus the princess became a kitchen-maid, and helped the cook to do all the dirtiest work; but she was allowed to carry home some of the meat that was left, and on this they lived.

Who acts: princess, cook, threads · What happens: become, help, do, allow, carry, leave · To what, where: kitchen maid, cook, dirtiest work, princess, some, meat

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 (princess, cook, threads), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 became	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 maid	det
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maid	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 kitchen	punct
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 helped	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 helped	cc
11	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cook	det
13	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 helped	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 helped	xcomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 work	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 work	det
18	dirtiest	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 work	amod
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 allowed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 allowed	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 allowed	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 allowed	aux:pass
24	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 became	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carry	mark
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 allowed	xcomp
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 carry	advmod
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 carry	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 meat	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 meat	det
31	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 some	nmod
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 left	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 left	aux:pass
34	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 meat	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lived	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 lived	cc
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 this	case
38	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 lived	obl
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lived	nsubj
40	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the princess	a kitchen maid		thus property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	help	past	the princess not said here	the cook			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	do	to-infinitive	the cook not said here	all dirtiest work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	allow	past · passive		princess			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	princess not said here	some		home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
6	leave	past · passive		the meat			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	live	past	threads = thread		this		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on this=Location

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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