Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 1

A shepherd’s dog had a master who took no care of him, but often let him suffer the greatest hunger.

Who acts: dog, master · What happens: have, take, let, suffer, care · To what, where: master, care, dog, greatest hunger

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, master), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 shepherd	case
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 master	det
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 master	acl:relcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 care	det
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 care	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 let	advmod
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hunger	det
21	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 hunger	amod
22	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 suffer	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a shepherd's dog	a master		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient
2	take	past	a master	no care of dog		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
3	let	infinitive	a shepherd's dog not said here	dog	often property	tree rules
4	suffer	infinitive	dog not said here	the greatest hunger		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus
5	care		dog			nom care «act intransitive»: of=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.

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