Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 79

If you overcome and slay both these Giants, I will give you my only daughter in marriage, and half of my kingdom for a dowry: a hundred knights shall accompany you, too, in order to render you assistance."

Who acts: you, I, hundred knights · What happens: overcome, slay, give, accompany, render · To what, where: Giants, daughter, you, marriage, assistance

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, I, hundred knights), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 overcome	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 overcome	nsubj
3	overcome	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slay	cc
5	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 overcome	conj
6	both	both	ADV	_	8 Giants	advmod
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 Giants	det
8	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 slay	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 overcome	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 daughter	advmod
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 marriage	case
18	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 half	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 half	cc
21	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 give	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 kingdom	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kingdom	nmod:poss
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 half	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 dowry	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dowry	det
27	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 half	nmod
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 accompany	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 knights	det
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 knights	nummod
31	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 accompany	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 accompany	aux
33	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	parataxis
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 accompany	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 too	punct
36	too	too	ADV	_	33 accompany	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 render	punct
38	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 render	mark
39	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 in	fixed
40	to	to	PART	_	41 render	mark
41	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 accompany	conj
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 render	obj
43	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 render	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	overcome a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	slay	present	you not said here	this Giants			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
3	give	future	I	my daughter	you	marriage	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient daughter=Theme
4	accompany	shall	a hundred knights	you			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	render	to-infinitive	a hundred knights not said here	assistance	you		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient assistance=Theme

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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