Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 99
At sunrise the King came, very much astonished to see the gold; the sight of which gladdened him, but did not make his heart less covetous.
Who acts: King, sight · What happens: come, see, gladden, not make · To what, where: gold, King, heart
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, sight), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sunrise | case |
| 2 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 astonished | punct |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 astonished | advmod |
| 9 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 astonished | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gold | det |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gladdened | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gladdened | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 gladdened | nsubj |
| 19 | gladdened | gladden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gladdened | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 make | advmod |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 gladdened | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 covetous | advmod |
| 29 | covetous | covetous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the King | sunrise | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gladden | past | the sight | King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not make | past · do-support | the sight not said here | King's heart | covetous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product |
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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