Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 16

So she gave his servants a great quantity of money, and they disclosed to her the secret, and also told her of the ball of cotton which alone could show her the way.

Who acts: woman, servants, ball · What happens: give, disclose, tell, show · To what, where: great quantity, servants, secret, woman, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, servants, ball), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 servants	nmod:poss
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 quantity	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 quantity	amod
8	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 money	case
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quantity	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 disclosed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 disclosed	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 disclosed	nsubj
14	disclosed	disclose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 disclosed	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 secret	det
18	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disclosed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	also	also	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 ball	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ball	det
26	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 cotton	case
28	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ball	nmod
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 show	nsubj
30	alone	alone	ADV	_	29 which	advmod
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 show	aux
32	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ball	acl:relcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 show	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 way	det
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 show	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	woman	a great quantity of money	King's servants		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient quantity=Theme
2	disclose	past	servants = servant	the secret	woman		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to she=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past	woman not said here		woman	of the ball of cotton	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	show	could	the ball of cotton	the way	woman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient way=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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