Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 92

It was a pity the man's face was covered with dirt and hair, else one would have seen how glad at heart these words made him.

Who acts: service, one, words · What happens: be, cover, see, make · To what, where: pity, heart, man · 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 (service, one, words), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pity	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pity	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pity	det
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	nsubj:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pity	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	aux:pass
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 dirt	case
12	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hair	cc
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dirt	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
16	else	else	ADV	_	20 seen	advmod
17	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 seen	aux
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 covered	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 glad	advmod
22	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seen	xcomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 heart	case
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seen	obl
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 words	det
26	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	service	a pity		the man's face nmod	tree rules
2	cover	past · passive		a pity		with dirt and hair	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dirt=Theme
3	see	would · perfect	one		heart	else, glad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make	past	this words	man			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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