Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 57

I know quite well what you need," said this being; "gold and other possessions you shall have, as much as you can spend; but first I must know whether you are a coward or not, that I may not spend my money foolishly."

Who acts: I, you, brothers, gold · What happens: know, need, say, have, spend, be · To what, where: this, much, coward, money · 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 (I, you, brothers, gold), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 know	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 said	obj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 gold	punct
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 possessions	cc
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 possessions	amod
18	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gold	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 much	punct
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 have	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 spend	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 spend	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 spend	aux
28	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 much	acl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 know	cc
31	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 know	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 know	aux
34	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	conj
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	39 coward	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 coward	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 coward	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 coward	det
39	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 know	ccomp
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 not	cc
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 coward	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 spend	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 spend	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 spend	nsubj
45	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 spend	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 spend	advmod
47	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 know	parataxis
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 money	nmod:poss
49	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 spend	obj
50	foolishly	foolishly	ADV	_	47 spend	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	need	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Dummerly's brothers = brother not said here	this		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
4	have	shall	gold and other possessions	much		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
5	spend	can	you			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	know	must	I		first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	present	you	a coward		tree rules
8	not spend	may	I	my money	foolishly property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset

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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