Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 14

The castle was so entirely hidden, and the way to it was so difficult to discover, that he himself could not have found it if a wise woman had not given him a ball of cotton which had the wonderful property, when he threw it before him, of unrolling itself and showing him the right path.

Who acts: way, ball, King · What happens: hide, be, discover, not find, not give, have · To what, where: castle, King, wise woman, wonderful property, right path

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, ball, King), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 castle	det
2	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hidden	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hidden	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 hidden	advmod
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 hidden	advmod
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 difficult	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 difficult	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 difficult	nsubj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 difficult	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 difficult	advmod
15	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hidden	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 discover	mark
17	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 difficult	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 found	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 found	nsubj:pass
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 found	advmod
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 found	aux
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hidden	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	obj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 given	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 woman	det
29	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 given	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 given	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 given	advmod
33	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 found	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 given	iobj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 ball	det
36	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 given	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 cotton	case
38	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ball	nmod
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 ball	acl:relcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 property	det
42	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 property	amod
43	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 threw	punct
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 threw	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 threw	nsubj
47	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 property	acl:relcl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 threw	obj
49	before	before	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 threw	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 unrolling	punct
52	of	of	SCONJ	_	53 unrolling	mark
53	unrolling	unroll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 threw	advcl
54	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 unrolling	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 showing	cc
56	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 unrolling	conj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 showing	iobj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 path	det
59	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 path	amod
60	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 showing	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		the castle			entirely property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	the way to castle				difficult property	tree rules
3	discover	to-infinitive	the way to castle not said here					vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	not find	could · perfect · passive		King				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute
5	not give a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		a wise woman	King			tree rules
6	have	past	a ball of cotton	the wonderful property				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient
7	throw	past	King	castle		before horse		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme before he=Destination
8	unroll	gerund	King not said here	castle				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
9	show	gerund	King not said here	the right path	King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient path=Topic

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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