Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 109

She was, moreover, very shrewd and clever; and the miller was so proud of her, that he one day told the king of the land, who used to come and hunt in the wood, that his daughter could spin gold out of straw.

Who acts: miller, Tom, land, daughter · What happens: be, tell, use, come, hunt, spin · To what, where: king, wood, gold, straw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, Tom, land, daughter), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shrewd	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shrewd	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shrewd	punct
4	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	7 shrewd	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shrewd	punct
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 shrewd	advmod
7	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 clever	cc
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shrewd	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 proud	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 proud	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 miller	det
13	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 proud	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 proud	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 proud	advmod
16	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shrewd	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 proud	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 he	obl:unmarked
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shrewd	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 land	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 land	det
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 king	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 used	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 used	nsubj
32	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 land	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 come	mark
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 used	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hunt	cc
36	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 wood	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wood	det
39	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hunt	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 spin	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 spin	mark
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 daughter	nmod:poss
43	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spin	nsubj
44	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 spin	aux
45	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 hunt	conj
46	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spin	obj
47	out	out	ADP	_	49 straw	case
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 straw	case
49	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 spin	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shrewd	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	miller				moreover, shrewd property	tree rules
2	be		miller not said here					tree rules
3	is	past	the miller				of mother; proud property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	Tom		the king of the land			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
5	use	past	the land					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	come	to-infinitive	the land not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hunt	infinitive	the land not said here			the wood		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
8	spin	could	Tom's daughter	gold		straw		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent gold=Theme out straw=Trajectory

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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