Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 83
And he further told him that inside the castle there was an immense amount of treasure guarded by evil spirits; enough to make any one free, and turn a poor man into a very rich one.
Who acts: King · What happens: tell, guard, make, turn, amount · To what, where: host, treasure, any, poor man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | further | further | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | 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 told | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 castle | mark |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | ccomp |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 castle | acl:relcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 amount | det |
| 13 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 amount | amod |
| 14 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 treasure | case |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 amount | nmod |
| 17 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 treasure | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 spirits | case |
| 19 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spirits | amod |
| 20 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 guarded | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 make | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | ccomp |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 free | nummod |
| 27 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 any | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 turn | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 turn | cc |
| 30 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 make | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 32 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 man | amod |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turn | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 one | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 one | det |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 rich | advmod |
| 37 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 one | amod |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turn | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | King | host | further property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | guard | participle | treasure not said here | by evil spirits | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | any | enough property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset any=Product | ||||
| 4 | turn | infinitive | a poor man | into a rich one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent man=Theme into one=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | amount | treasure | nom amount «possession 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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