Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 66

So they went and told the King, knowing that, should war break out, here was a valuable and useful man, whom one ought not to part with at any price.

Who acts: people, war, knowing, valuable man · What happens: go, tell, know, break out, be, not part · To what, where: King, valuable man · 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 (people, war, knowing, valuable man), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knowing	punct
9	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 man	csubj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 break	mark
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 break	aux
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 break	nsubj
14	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 knowing	ccomp
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 break	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 break	punct
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 break	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 man	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
20	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 useful	cc
22	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 valuable	conj
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 part	punct
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 part	nsubj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 part	nsubj
27	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 part	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 part	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 part	mark
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 man	acl:relcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 price	case
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 price	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 price	det
34	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	people					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	people not said here		the King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	know	gerund						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	break out	should	war			here		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	knowing	a valuable man				tree rules
6	not part	ought	a valuable man				with any price	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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