Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 78
However, when Bearskin put his hand into his pocket and drew it out full of gold ducats the landlord yielded the point, and gave him a place in the outbuildings, but not till he had promised that he would not show himself, for fear the inn should gain a bad name.
Who acts: Bearskin, landlord, soldier, inn · What happens: put, draw out, yield, give, not promise, not show · To what, where: hand, pocket, place, point, soldier, outbuildings
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 (Bearskin, landlord, soldier, inn), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 put | advmod |
| 4 | Bearskin | Bearskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl | ||
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drew | cc |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drew | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 drew | compound:prt |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drew | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ducats | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ducats | compound |
| 18 | ducats | ducat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 full | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 landlord | det |
| 20 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 yielded | nsubj |
| 21 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ducats | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 point | det |
| 23 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 yielded | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gave | cc |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | iobj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 outbuildings | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 outbuildings | det |
| 32 | outbuildings | outbuilding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 place | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 promised | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 promised | cc |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 promised | advmod |
| 36 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 39 promised | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 promised | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 promised | aux |
| 39 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 gave | conj |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 show | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 show | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 show | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 show | advmod |
| 44 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 promised | advcl |
| 45 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 show | iobj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 fear | punct |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 fear | case |
| 48 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 show | obj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 inn | det |
| 50 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 gain | nsubj |
| 51 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 gain | aux |
| 52 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 fear | acl:relcl |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 name | det |
| 54 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 name | amod |
| 55 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 gain | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Bearskin | soldier's hand | soldier's pocket | however property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||
| 2 | draw out | past | Bearskin not said here | place | full property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | yield | past | the landlord | the point | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent point=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | a place | soldier | the outbuildings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Theme | |||
| 5 | not promise speech: promise | past · perfect | soldier | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not show | would | soldier | fear | soldier | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient fear=Topic | |||
| 7 | gain | should | the inn | a bad name | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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