Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 101

Before you receive my daughter and the half of my kingdom," said he to him, "you must execute another brave deed.

Who acts: you, kingdom · What happens: receive, say, execute · To what, where: daughter, Tailor, brave deed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, kingdom), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 receive	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 receive	nsubj
3	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	advcl
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 receive	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 half	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 half	det
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 daughter	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 kingdom	nmod:poss
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 half	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 receive	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 receive	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 execute	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 execute	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 execute	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 execute	aux
22	execute	execute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 deed	det
24	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 deed	amod
25	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 execute	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	receive	present	you	my daughter and the half of my kingdom		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	kingdom		Tailor	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	execute	must	you	another brave deed		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=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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