Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 32

When the Dwarf saw the sword and bread which he had brought away he declared he had done well, for with the sword he could destroy whole armies--but the bread was worth nothing.

Who acts: Dwarf, Prince, bread · What happens: see, bring away, declare, do, destroy, be · To what, where: sword, whole armies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dwarf, Prince, bread), 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	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dwarf	det
3	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 declared	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sword	det
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bread	cc
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sword	conj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 brought	nsubj:pass
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sword	acl:relcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 brought	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 declared	nsubj
15	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 declared	ccomp
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 done	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 destroy	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 sword	case
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 sword	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sword	det
24	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 destroy	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 destroy	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 destroy	aux
27	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 done	advcl
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 armies	amod
29	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 destroy	obj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 worth	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 worth	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bread	det
33	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 worth	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 worth	cop
35	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 declared	conj
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 worth	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Dwarf	the sword and bread		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus
2	bring away	past · perfect · passive		the sword and bread	away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
3	declare speech: other	past	Prince			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	Prince		well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	destroy	could	Prince	whole armies	for the sword	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient
6	is	past	the bread		worth 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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