Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 26
At last he bethought himself of a way, and said to the King, "Everything which she has around her is of gold--chairs, tables, dishes, bowls, and all the household utensils.
Who acts: King, daughter, Everything · What happens: bethink, say, have, be · To what, where: King, last · 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, daughter, Everything), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bethought | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bethought | nsubj |
| 4 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 bethought | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bethought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bethought | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 gold | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Everything | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Everything | punct |
| 17 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 gold | nsubj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 has | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 has | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Everything | acl:relcl |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 has | obl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gold | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 chairs | punct |
| 27 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gold | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tables | punct |
| 29 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gold | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dishes | punct |
| 31 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gold | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bowls | punct |
| 33 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gold | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 utensils | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 utensils | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 utensils | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 utensils | det |
| 38 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 utensils | compound |
| 39 | utensils | utensil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bethought | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | King | King | last | of a way; all household utensils obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | daughter | around life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Everything | of gold and chairs and tables and dishes and bowls; to the King | tree rules |
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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