Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 23

"Then," said the King, "my love for her is so great that if all the leaves on the trees had tongues, they should not gainsay it; my life is set upon the search for her.

Who acts: King, leaves, my · What happens: say, be, have, not gainsay, set, love · To what, where: tongues, love, life, search · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, leaves, my), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 great	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 love	nmod:poss
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 King	appos
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 love	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 great	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 great	advmod
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 gainsay	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 leaves	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 leaves	det
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	nsubj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 trees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trees	det
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 leaves	nmod
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gainsay	advcl
26	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gainsay	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 gainsay	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 gainsay	advmod
31	gainsay	gainsay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 great	csubj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gainsay	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 set	punct
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 life	nmod:poss
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 set	nsubj:pass
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 set	aux:pass
37	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 search	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 search	det
40	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 set	obl
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 set	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the King				great property	tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	all leaves on the trees	tongues				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient
4	not gainsay in a quote	should	leaves = leaf	love				tree rules
5	set in a quote	present · passive		my life	the search		for daughter	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon search=Destination
6	love in a quote		my				for daughter	nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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