Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 22

Now, he had collected a tolerable sum of silver dollars, which he changed into gold, and then he told his wife, "Do you see, these are yellow counters which I will put in a pot and bury in the stable under the cow's stall; but mind that you do not meddle with it, or you will come to some harm."

Who acts: husband, silver dollars, wife, these, yellow counters · What happens: collect, change, tell, see, be, put · To what, where: tolerable sum, gold, wife, yellow counters, pot, stable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, silver dollars, wife, these), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 collected	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 collected	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 collected	aux
5	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sum	det
7	tolerable	tolerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sum	amod
8	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 collected	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 dollars	case
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dollars	compound
11	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sum	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 changed	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 changed	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 changed	nsubj
15	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dollars	acl:relcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 gold	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 changed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 told	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 collected	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
27	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 counters	punct
31	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 counters	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 counters	cop
33	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 counters	amod
34	counters	counter	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	obl
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 put	nsubj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 put	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 put	aux
38	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 counters	acl:relcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 pot	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 pot	det
41	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bury	cc
43	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 put	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 stable	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 stable	det
46	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bury	obl
47	under	under	ADP	_	51 stall	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 cow	det
49	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 stall	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 cow	case
51	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bury	obl
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 mind	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 mind	cc
54	mind	mind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 collected	parataxis
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 meddle	mark
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 meddle	nsubj
57	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 meddle	aux
58	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 meddle	advmod
59	meddle	meddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 mind	advcl
60	with	with	ADP	_	61 it	case
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 meddle	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 come	punct
63	or	or	CCONJ	_	66 come	cc
64	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	66 come	nsubj
65	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	66 come	aux
66	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 mind	advcl
67	to	to	ADP	_	69 harm	case
68	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	69 harm	det
69	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 come	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 collected	punct
71	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	past · perfect	husband	a tolerable sum of silver dollars			now		tree rules
2	change	past	silver dollars					into gold result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into gold=Result
3	tell speech: assert	past	husband		husband's wife		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
4	see in a quote	present · do-support	husband's wife = wife						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	present	these	yellow counters					tree rules
6	put in a quote	future	yellow counters			a pot			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pot=Destination
7	bury in a quote	infinitive	yellow counters not said here			the stable		under the cow's stall	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stable=Destination
8	mind in a quote	infinitive							vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	not meddle in a quote	present · do-support	husband's wife = wife					with stall	tree rules
10	come in a quote	future	husband's wife = wife			some harm			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location
11	sum			silver dollars					nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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: «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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