Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 30

So the big box was brought, and out of it the toad handed him a ring which was of so exquisite a workmanship that no goldsmith's could equal it.

Who acts: toad, ring, goldsmith · What happens: bring, hand, be, equal · To what, where: big box, ring, Dummling, box, exquisite workmanship

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toad, ring, goldsmith), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	aux:pass
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 handed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 handed	cc
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 it	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 handed	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 toad	det
13	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handed	nsubj
14	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 handed	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ring	det
17	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handed	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 workmanship	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 workmanship	cop
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 workmanship	case
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 exquisite	advmod
22	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 workmanship	amod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 workmanship	det
24	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ring	acl:relcl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 equal	obj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 goldsmith	det
27	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 equal	nsubj
28	's	's	PART	_	27 goldsmith	case
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 equal	aux
30	equal	equal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 workmanship	acl:relcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 equal	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		the big box				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
2	hand	past	the toad	a ring	Dummling	box		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination ring=Theme
3	is	past	a ring				of a exquisite workmanship	tree rules
4	equal	could	no goldsmith	a exquisite workmanship				tree rules

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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