Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 79

Soon the Knight came up to the tree, and the sisters saw he was a very handsome man, for he stopped to admire the fine silver leaves and golden fruit, and presently asked to whom the tree belonged, for he should like to have a branch off it.

Who acts: Knight, sisters, fine silver, tree · What happens: come up, see, be, stop, admire, leave · To what, where: tree, handsome man, branch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, sisters, fine silver, tree), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Knight	det
3	Knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sisters	det
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 man	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 man	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 handsome	advmod
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 stopped	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 admire	mark
25	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stopped	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 silver	det
27	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 silver	amod
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leaves	nsubj
29	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 admire	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fruit	cc
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fruit	amod
32	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 leaves	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 asked	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 asked	cc
35	presently	presently	ADV	_	36 asked	advmod
36	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 whom	case
38	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 asked	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tree	det
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 belonged	nsubj
41	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 whom	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 like	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 like	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 like	nsubj
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 like	aux
46	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 asked	ccomp
47	to	to	PART	_	48 have	mark
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 like	xcomp
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 branch	det
50	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
51	off	off	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 have	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the Knight		the tree	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	see	past	the sisters				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	Knight	a handsome man			tree rules
4	stop	past	Knight				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	admire	to-infinitive	Knight not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	leave	present	the fine silver				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	past				presently property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	belong	past	the tree				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
9	like	should	Knight				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Knight not said here	a branch		off tree	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=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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