Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 88

There was once a poor Miller who had a beautiful daughter, and one day, having to go to speak with the King, he said, in order to make himself appear of consequence, that he had a daughter who could spin straw into gold.

Who acts: poor Miller, King, daughter · What happens: be, have, go, speak, say, make · To what, where: beautiful daughter, King, daughter, straw, gold · 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 (poor Miller, King, daughter), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Miller	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Miller	amod
6	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 once	conj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Miller	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 daughter	amod
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 day	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 having	punct
17	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 having	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 speak	mark
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	xcomp
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 King	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 speak	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
29	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 make	mark
30	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 in	fixed
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 make	obj
34	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 make	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 consequence	case
36	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 appear	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 appear	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 daughter	det
42	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 spin	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 spin	aux
45	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 daughter	acl:relcl
46	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spin	obj
47	into	into	ADP	_	48 gold	case
48	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spin	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	day	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a poor Miller	a beautiful daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	have	gerund						tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive					with the King	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with king=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	make	to-infinitive		King				tree rules
8	appear	infinitive	King not said here				of consequence	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	have	past	King	a daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
10	spin	could	a daughter	straw	gold			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme into gold=Trajectory

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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