Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 14
Then he gave him gold and lands and flocks, and made him so rich that his brother’s fortune could not at all be compared with his.
Who acts: king · What happens: give, make, not compare · To what, where: gold, gardener, fortune
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lands | cc |
| 7 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gold | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flocks | cc |
| 9 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lands | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 rich | advmod |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 compared | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 compared | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 compared | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 compared | aux:pass |
| 26 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rich | advcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 his | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 compared | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | king | gold and lands and flocks | gardener | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient gold=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | past | king not said here | gardener | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 3 | not compare | could · passive | king's brother's fortune | with king | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with his=Co-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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