Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 65

Then the second spoke again, "I know still more: if the horse should be killed, the young King will not then retain his bride; for when they come into the castle a beautiful bridal shirt will lie there upon a dish, and seem to be woven of gold and silver, but it is nothing but sulphur and pitch, and if he puts it on it will burn him to his marrow and bones."

Who acts: second, young King, stones, beautiful bridal shirt, shirt, horse · What happens: speak, know, kill, not retain, come, lie · To what, where: horse, bride, castle, nothing, shirt · 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 (second, young King, stones, beautiful bridal shirt), 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	4 spoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 second	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
9	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	parataxis
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 know	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 retain	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 killed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 killed	nsubj:pass
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 killed	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 killed	aux:pass
18	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 retain	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 King	amod
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 retain	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 retain	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 retain	advmod
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 retain	advmod
26	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bride	nmod:poss
28	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 retain	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 come	mark
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 come	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
33	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	parataxis
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 castle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 castle	det
36	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lie	obl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 shirt	det
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shirt	amod
39	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 shirt	amod
40	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lie	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 lie	aux
42	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 come	conj
43	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 lie	advmod
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 dish	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 dish	det
46	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lie	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 seem	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 seem	cc
49	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 lie	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	52 woven	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 woven	aux:pass
52	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 seem	xcomp
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 gold	case
54	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 woven	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 silver	cc
56	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 gold	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 nothing	punct
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 nothing	cc
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 nothing	nsubj
60	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 nothing	cop
61	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 spoke	parataxis
62	but	but	CCONJ	_	63 sulphur	cc
63	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 nothing	conj
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 pitch	cc
65	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 nothing	conj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 burn	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 burn	cc
68	if	if	SCONJ	_	70 puts	mark
69	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 puts	nsubj
70	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	75 burn	advcl
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 puts	obj
72	on	on	ADP	_	73 it	case
73	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 burn	obl
74	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	75 burn	aux
75	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spoke	conj
76	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 burn	obj
77	to	to	ADP	_	79 marrow	case
78	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	79 marrow	nmod:poss
79	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 burn	obl
80	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 bones	cc
81	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	79 marrow	conj
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct
83	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the second			then; again		tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	the second = second					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should · passive		the horse				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not retain in a quote	future	the young King	horse's bride		then		tree rules
5	come in a quote	present	stones = stone					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lie in a quote	future	a beautiful bridal shirt		the castle; there		upon a dish	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon dish=Location
7	seem in a quote	present	a beautiful bridal shirt not said here					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
8	weave in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	a beautiful bridal shirt not said here				of gold and silver	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: of gold=Trajectory
9	is a in a quote	present	shirt	nothing				tree rules
10	put a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	horse	shirt				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
11	burn in a quote	future	the second not said here	horse	shirt		to horse's marrow and bones	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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