Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 27
Among your treasures are five tons of gold; let one of the goldsmiths of your kingdom manufacture vessels and utensils of all kinds therefrom--all kinds of birds, and wild and wonderful beasts, such as will please her, then we will travel with these, and try our luck."
Who acts: wild beasts, we, your · What happens: be, let, please, travel, try, treasure · To what, where: five tons, one, daughter, luck
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 (wild beasts, we, your), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 treasures | case |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 3 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tons | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tons | cop |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 tons | nummod |
| 6 | tons | ton | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tons | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 tons | parataxis |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 goldsmiths | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goldsmiths | det |
| 14 | goldsmiths | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 vessels | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 vessels | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manufacture | compound |
| 18 | manufacture | manufacture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vessels | compound |
| 19 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 goldsmiths | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 utensils | cc |
| 21 | utensils | utensil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 vessels | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kinds | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 kinds | det |
| 24 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 utensils | nmod |
| 25 | therefrom | therefrom | ADV | _ | 10 let | advmod |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 kinds | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 kinds | det |
| 28 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 let | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 birds | case |
| 30 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 kinds | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 please | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 please | cc |
| 33 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beasts | amod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wonderful | cc |
| 35 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wild | conj |
| 36 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 please | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 please | punct |
| 38 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 41 please | mark |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 such | fixed |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 please | aux |
| 41 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 please | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 travel | punct |
| 44 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 travel | advmod |
| 45 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 travel | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 travel | aux |
| 47 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 please | conj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 these | case |
| 49 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 47 travel | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 try | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 try | cc |
| 52 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | conj |
| 53 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 luck | nmod:poss |
| 54 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 try | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | five tons | among your treasures; of gold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | one of the goldsmiths of your manufacture vessels and utensils of all kinds | all kinds of birds obl; therefrom property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | please | future | wild beasts | daughter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | travel | future | we | then | with these | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | try | infinitive | our luck | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | treasure | your | nom treasure «possession 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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