Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 10
Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, ‘One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.’
Who acts: Everyone, feather, king, One feather, I · What happens: agree, be, say, have · To what, where: me, whole bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, feather, king, One feather), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 worth | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 worth | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 worth | cop |
| 6 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 agreed | ccomp |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 worth | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 wealth | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 wealth | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wealth | det |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 more | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wealth | nmod |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 use | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 use | punct |
| 22 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 feather | nummod |
| 23 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 use | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 use | cop |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 use | case |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 use | det |
| 27 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 use | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | aux |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bird | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bird | amod |
| 36 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Everyone | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | feather | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | One feather | me | of no use | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | must | I | the whole bird | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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