Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 68

The Soldier reflected for awhile on his great necessities, and, remembering how often he had braved death, he at length consented, and ventured to accept the offer.

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: reflect, remember, brave, consent, venture, accept · To what, where: braved death, soldier, offer

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 (Soldier), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Soldier	det
2	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reflected	nsubj
3	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 awhile	case
5	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	3 reflected	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 necessities	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 necessities	nmod:poss
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 necessities	amod
9	necessities	necessity	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reflected	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remembering	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 remembering	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remembering	punct
13	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 reflected	advcl
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 often	advmod
15	often	often	ADV	_	18 braved	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 braved	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 braved	aux
18	braved	brave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 death	amod
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remembering	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 consented	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 consented	nsubj:pass
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 length	case
23	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 he	nmod
24	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reflected	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ventured	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ventured	cc
27	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reflected	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 accept	mark
29	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ventured	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 offer	det
31	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 accept	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reflected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reflect	past	the Soldier		on soldier's great necessities	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on necessity=Topic
2	remember	gerund	the Soldier not said here	braved death		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent death=Theme
3	brave	past · perfect	soldier		often property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	consent	participle · passive		soldier		tree rules
5	venture	past	the Soldier not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	accept	to-infinitive	the Soldier not said here	the offer		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=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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