Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 48

Now this hill was so big that the whole world could not take it away: and when he had worked for seven days, and had done very little, the fox came and said.

Who acts: hill, whole world, world, fox · What happens: be, not take away, work, do, come, say · To what, where: hill, little · 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 (hill, whole world, world, fox), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 big	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hill	det
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 take	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 world	amod
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 take	advmod
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 big	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 take	advmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 worked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 worked	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 worked	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 worked	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 worked	aux
21	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 big	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 days	case
23	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 days	nummod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 worked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 done	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 worked	conj
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 little	advmod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 done	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fox	det
33	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	nsubj
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 done	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 came	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this hill		now	big property	tree rules
2	not take away	could	the whole world	hill		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	work	past · perfect	world		day		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past · perfect	world not said here	little			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	the fox				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the fox not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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