Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 128
The king was greatly delighted to see all this glittering treasure; but still he had not enough: so he took the miller’s daughter to a yet larger heap, and said, ‘All this must be spun tonight; and if it is, you shall be my queen.’
Who acts: king, treasure, you · What happens: be, see, glitter, not be, take, say · To what, where: glittering treasure, daughter, larger heap, this, queen · 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 (king, treasure, you), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 treasure | det:predet |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 treasure | det |
| 10 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 treasure | amod |
| 11 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 enough | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 enough | cc |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 enough | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 enough | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enough | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 enough | advmod |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 delighted | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 took | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enough | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 miller | det |
| 24 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 miller | case |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 heap | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 heap | det |
| 29 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 30 larger | advmod |
| 30 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 heap | amod |
| 31 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 spun | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 spun | punct |
| 37 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 this | det:predet |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 spun | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 spun | aux:pass |
| 41 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 said | ccomp |
| 42 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spun | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 queen | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 queen | cc |
| 45 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 47 is | mark |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 is | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 queen | advcl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 is | punct |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 queen | nsubj |
| 50 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 queen | aux |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 queen | cop |
| 52 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 queen | nmod:poss |
| 53 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | delighted, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the king not said here | all glittering treasure | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treasure=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not be | past | king | still | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past | king | the miller's daughter | a larger heap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to heap=Destination | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | spin | must · passive | this | tonight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 8 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | treasure | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is a | shall | you | my queen | tree rules |
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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