Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 113

The frightened Queen offered him all the riches of the kingdom if he would leave her her child; but the Dwarf answered, "No; something human is dearer to me than all the wealth of the world."

Who acts: frightened Queen, child, Dwarf, something human · What happens: offer, leave, answer, be · To what, where: riches, child, Queen, Dwarf · 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 (frightened Queen, child, Dwarf, something human), 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	3 Queen	det
2	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Queen	amod
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 offered	nsubj
4	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offered	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 riches	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 riches	det
8	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 offered	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kingdom	det
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 riches	nmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 leave	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 leave	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 leave	aux
15	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 offered	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 leave	obj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 child	nmod:poss
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leave	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 answered	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 answered	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Dwarf	det
22	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 answered	nsubj
23	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offered	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dearer	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 dearer	punct
26	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	31 dearer	discourse
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 No	punct
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 human	compound
29	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dearer	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 dearer	cop
31	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 answered	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 dearer	obl
34	than	than	ADP	_	37 wealth	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 wealth	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wealth	det
37	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dearer	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wealth	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offered	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	offer	past	the frightened Queen	all riches of the kingdom	child		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal rich=Theme
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	would	child	Queen			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme child=Attribute
3	answer speech: assert	past	the Dwarf				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	something human		the Dwarf = dwarf	than all wealth of the world; dear 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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