Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 38

When the King's daughter saw the golden cups, she was much pleased, and said, "They are so finely worked that I will purchase them all."

Who acts: daughter, cups, I · What happens: see, be, say, purchase · To what, where: golden cups, cups · 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 (daughter, cups, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cups	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cups	amod
9	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pleased	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pleased	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pleased	cop
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 pleased	advmod
14	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saw	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 worked	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 worked	punct
20	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 worked	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 worked	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 worked	advmod
23	finely	finely	ADV	_	24 worked	advmod
24	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 purchase	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 purchase	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 purchase	aux
28	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 worked	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 purchase	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 them	nmod:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King's daughter	the golden cups		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cup=Stimulus
2	is	past	daughter		pleased property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present	cups = cup		finely, work property	tree rules
5	purchase in a quote	future	I	cups = cup		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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