Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 17
The king took the gift very graciously, and said he knew not what to give in return more valuable and wonderful than the great turnip; so the soldier was forced to put it into a cart, and drag it home with him.
Who acts: king, soldier · What happens: take, say, not know, give, force, put · To what, where: gift, return, soldier, cart · Speech: someone speaks here
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, soldier), 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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gift | det |
| 5 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 graciously | advmod |
| 7 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 knew | advmod |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 give | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 return | case |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 valuable | advmod |
| 20 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 give | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wonderful | cc |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 valuable | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 turnip | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 turnip | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 turnip | amod |
| 26 | turnip | turnip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wonderful | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 forced | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 forced | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 soldier | det |
| 30 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 forced | aux:pass |
| 32 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 put | mark |
| 34 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 forced | xcomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 put | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 cart | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 cart | det |
| 38 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 put | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 drag | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 drag | cc |
| 41 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 forced | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 drag | obj |
| 43 | home | home | ADV | _ | 41 drag | advmod |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 drag | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | the gift | graciously property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know | past | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | return | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | force | past · passive | the soldier | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | put | to-infinitive | the soldier not said here | gift | a cart | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 7 | drag | infinitive | gift | with king; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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