Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 30

The next morning the court sat to judge him; and when all was heard, it sentenced him to die, unless he should bring the king the golden horse which could run as swiftly as the wind; and if he did this, he was to have the golden bird given him for his own.

Who acts: court, bird, golden horse, golden bird · What happens: sit, judge, hear, sentence, die, bring · To what, where: court, all, golden horse, king, this, golden bird

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 (court, bird, golden horse, golden bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 court	det
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 judge	mark
8	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sat	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 judge	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sentenced	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sentenced	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 heard	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux:pass
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 sentenced	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sentenced	nsubj
18	sentenced	sentence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sentenced	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 die	mark
21	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sentenced	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bring	punct
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	26 bring	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bring	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bring	aux
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 die	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bring	obj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 horse	det
30	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 horse	amod
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bring	obj
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 run	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 run	aux
34	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 horse	acl:relcl
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 swiftly	advmod
36	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	34 run	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 wind	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wind	det
39	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 run	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 have	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 have	cc
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 did	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 did	nsubj
44	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 have	advcl
45	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 did	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 did	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 have	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 have	aux
49	to	to	PART	_	50 have	mark
50	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sat	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 bird	det
52	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 bird	amod
53	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 have	obj
54	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 bird	acl
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 given	obj
56	for	for	ADP	_	58 own	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 own	nmod:poss
58	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 given	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the court			morning		tree rules
2	judge	to-infinitive	the court not said here	court				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent he=Value
3	hear	past · passive		all				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	sentence	past	bird	court				tree rules
5	die	to-infinitive	bird not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	bring a condition, not said to happen	should	court	the golden horse	the king			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent king=Destination horse=Theme
7	run	could	the golden horse				as the wind; swiftly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	do a condition, not said to happen	past	court	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
9	have	past	court	the golden bird				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
10	give	participle	the golden bird not said here	king			for king's own	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme for own=Asset

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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