Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 40
Then the King's daughter wished to have them all brought; but he said, "It would take many days, and so great is the quantity that your palace has not halls enough in it to place them around."
Who acts: daughter, gold, King, It, palace · What happens: wish, have, bring, say, take, be · To what, where: great quantity, place · 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, gold, King, It), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 wished | 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 wished | nsubj |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wished | xcomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wished | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 18 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 days | amod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 quantity | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 quantity | cc |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 great | advmod |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 quantity | amod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 quantity | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 quantity | det |
| 29 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 has | obj |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 palace | nmod:poss |
| 32 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 has | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 quantity | acl:relcl |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 halls | advmod |
| 35 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 has | obj |
| 36 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 has | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 place | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 place | nsubj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 place | mark |
| 40 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 has | obl |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 around | nsubj |
| 42 | around | around | ADV | _ | 40 place | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 quantity | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 quantity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the King's daughter | then | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | the King's daughter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | gold | all property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | would | It | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | the great quantity | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have in a quote | present | your palace | the great quantity | place | enough property | 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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