Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 47

Then he was brought before the king, and the king said, ‘You shall never have my daughter unless in eight days you dig away the hill that stops the view from my window.’

Who acts: king, You, hill · What happens: bring, say, not have, dig away, stop · To what, where: fox, daughter, hill, view, window · 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 (king, You, hill), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 brought	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	aux:pass
4	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 have	advmod
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	26 dig	mark
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 days	case
23	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dig	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 dig	nsubj
26	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	advcl
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 dig	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hill	det
29	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dig	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 stops	nsubj
31	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hill	acl:relcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 view	det
33	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stops	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 window	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 window	nmod:poss
36	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stops	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · passive		fox		before the king; then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before king=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not have	shall	You	my daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	dig away a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the hill		day	away property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hill=Theme
5	stop	present	the hill	the view	my window			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer view=Beneficiary from window=Eventuality

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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