Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 14

When that was eaten, the sparrow asked him whether he had had enough now.

Who acts: sparrow, dog · What happens: eat, ask, have · To what, where: that, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sparrow, dog), 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	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 eaten	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 asked	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sparrow	det
7	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 asked	ccomp
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 had	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		that				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the sparrow		dog			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past · perfect	dog			now	enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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.

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