Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 104

The King was rejoiced above measure at the sight of this, but still he was not satisfied, but, leading the maiden into another still larger room, full of straw as the others, he said, "This you must spin during the night; but if you accomplish it you shall be my bride." "

Who acts: King, This, you · What happens: rejoice, not be, lead, say, spin, accomplish · To what, where: King, measure, maiden, larger room, room, bride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, This, you), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rejoiced	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rejoiced	aux:pass
4	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	above	above	ADP	_	6 measure	case
6	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rejoiced	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 sight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sight	det
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rejoiced	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 sight	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 satisfied	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 satisfied	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	18 satisfied	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 satisfied	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 satisfied	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 satisfied	advmod
18	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rejoiced	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leading	punct
22	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 said	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 maiden	det
24	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leading	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	29 room	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 room	det
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 larger	advmod
28	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 room	amod
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leading	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 full	punct
31	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 room	amod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 straw	case
33	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 full	obl
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 others	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 others	det
36	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 full	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leading	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 said	nsubj
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 satisfied	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 spin	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 spin	punct
42	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 spin	nsubj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 spin	nsubj
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 spin	aux
45	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
46	during	during	ADP	_	48 night	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 night	det
48	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spin	obl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 bride	punct
50	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 bride	cc
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 accomplish	mark
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 accomplish	nsubj
53	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 bride	advcl
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 accomplish	obj
55	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 bride	nsubj
56	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 bride	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 bride	cop
58	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 bride	nmod:poss
59	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rejoiced	parataxis
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 bride	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 bride	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past · passive		the King	measure		at the sight of this	tree rules
2	not is	past	King			still	satisfied property	tree rules
3	lead	gerund		the maiden	another larger room			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme into room=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	spin in a quote	must	This			night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	accomplish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	room				vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	is a in a quote	shall	you	my bride				tree rules
8	sight			this				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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