Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 48
[1] As long as the war lasted all went well, but when peace was concluded he received his discharge, and the captain told him he might go where he liked.
Who acts: Dummerly, captain · What happens: last, go, conclude, receive, tell, like · To what, where: peace, discharge, Dummerly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummerly, captain), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 lasted | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | As | as | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 lasted | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lasted | obl |
| 9 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lasted | advcl |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 concluded | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 concluded | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 concluded | advmod |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 concluded | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 concluded | aux:pass |
| 18 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 received | advcl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 received | nsubj |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lasted | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 discharge | nmod:poss |
| 22 | discharge | discharge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 told | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 told | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 captain | det |
| 26 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 told | nsubj |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lasted | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | iobj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 go | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 told | ccomp |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 liked | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 liked | nsubj |
| 34 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | as the war; long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | all, well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | conclude | past · passive | peace | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | receive | past | Dummerly | Dummerly's discharge | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discharge=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the captain | Dummerly | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go | might | Dummerly | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | like | past | Dummerly | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | discharge | Dummerly | nom discharge «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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