Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 63
Thereupon the stranger said, "I see quite well that you are not wanting in courage; but there is yet one condition which you must fulfil." "
Who acts: stranger, you, one condition · What happens: say, see, not want, be, fulfil · To what, where: courage, one condition · 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 (stranger, you, one condition), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 condition | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 well | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 see | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 wanting | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wanting | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wanting | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 wanting | advmod |
| 15 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 see | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 courage | case |
| 17 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wanting | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 is | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 condition | cop |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 is | advmod |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 condition | nummod |
| 24 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 fulfil | nsubj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 fulfil | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 fulfil | aux |
| 28 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 condition | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 fulfil | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 fulfil | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 fulfil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the stranger | thereupon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | the stranger = stranger | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not want in a quote | present · progressive | you | courage | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | one condition | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fulfil in a quote | must | one condition | 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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