Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 84
The latter, when he saw himself released from his troubles, knew not how to be sufficiently grateful, and said to the Soldier, "Come with me; my daughters are all wonders of beauty, so choose one of them for a wife.
Who acts: latter, purse, daughters · What happens: see, release, not know, be, say, come · To what, where: purse, troubles, Soldier, wonders, one · 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 (latter, purse, daughters), 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 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 troubles | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 11 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 released | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 knew | advmod |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 grateful | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 grateful | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 grateful | cop |
| 18 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 19 grateful | advmod |
| 19 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Soldier | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Soldier | det |
| 25 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Come | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Come | punct |
| 28 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 Come | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 wonders | punct |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 wonders | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 wonders | cop |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 wonders | det |
| 36 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 beauty | case |
| 38 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wonders | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 choose | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 choose | advmod |
| 41 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saw | conj |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 choose | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 one | nmod |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 wife | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 wife | det |
| 47 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 choose | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the latter | purse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | release | participle | purse not said here | purse's troubles | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 3 | not know | past | the latter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | grateful, sufficiently property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the Soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to soldier=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | infinitive | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | my daughters | all wonders | of beauty | tree rules | |||
| 8 | choose in a quote | infinitive | the latter not said here | one of daughters | for a wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 9 | trouble | purse | nom trouble «cognition 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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