Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 58

The son said: ‘Most gracious father, I will show her to you in the form of a beautiful flower,’ and he thrust his hand into his pocket and brought forth the pink, and placed it on the royal table, and it was so beautiful that the king had never seen one to equal it.

Who acts: son, Most gracious father, father, hand, king · What happens: say, show, thrust, bring, place, be · To what, where: dog, hand, pocket, pink, royal table, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Most gracious father, father, hand), 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 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 father	punct
6	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 father	amod
7	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 father	amod
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 father	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 show	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 show	aux
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 show	iobj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 show	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 form	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 form	det
18	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 flower	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 flower	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 flower	amod
22	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 form	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flower	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thrust	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thrust	nsubj
27	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thrust	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 pocket	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pocket	nmod:poss
32	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thrust	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 brought	cc
34	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 thrust	conj
35	forth	forth	ADV	_	34 brought	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 pink	det
37	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 brought	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 placed	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 placed	cc
40	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 placed	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	45 table	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 table	det
44	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 table	amod
45	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 placed	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 beautiful	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 beautiful	cc
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 beautiful	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 beautiful	cop
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 beautiful	advmod
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 placed	conj
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 seen	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 king	det
54	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 seen	nsubj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 seen	aux
56	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	57 seen	advmod
57	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 beautiful	advcl
58	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 seen	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 equal	mark
60	equal	equal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 seen	advcl
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 equal	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the son					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	show	future	Most gracious father		dog		to you; in the form of a beautiful flower	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Patient to you=Recipient in form=Topic
3	thrust	past	father	father's hand		father's pocket		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	bring	past	father not said here	the pink			forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pink=Theme
5	place	past	the son not said here	hand		the royal table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on table=Destination
6	is	past	hand				beautiful property	tree rules
7	not see	past · perfect	the king	one				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
8	equal	to-infinitive	the king not said here	hand				tree rules
9	form			a beautiful flower				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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