Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 19

So he hired some villains to murder him; and having shown them where to lie in ambush, he went to his brother, and said, ‘Dear brother, I have found a hidden treasure; let us go and dig it up, and share it between us.’

Who acts: king, Dear brother, I, us · What happens: hire, murder, show, lie, go, say · To what, where: villains, king, ambush, hidden treasure, us, treasure · 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, Dear brother, I, us), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 hired	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hired	nsubj
3	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 villains	det
5	villains	villain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hired	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 murder	mark
7	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hired	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 murder	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 shown	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shown	cc
11	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 shown	aux
12	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 hired	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shown	obj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 lie	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 lie	mark
16	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 shown	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 ambush	case
18	ambush	ambush	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lie	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hired	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 brother	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 brother	nmod:poss
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hired	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brother	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 brother	punct
30	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 brother	amod
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 found	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
34	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 found	aux
35	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 brother	acl:relcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 treasure	det
37	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 treasure	amod
38	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 found	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 let	punct
40	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
41	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 let	obj
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 let	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dig	cc
44	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 let	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 dig	obj
46	up	up	ADP	_	44 dig	compound:prt
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 share	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 share	cc
49	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 hired	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 share	obj
51	between	between	ADP	_	52 us	case
52	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 share	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hired	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 hired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hire	past	king	some villains			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villain=Theme
2	murder	to-infinitive	king not said here	king			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	show	gerund · perfect	king not said here	villains = villain			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	lie	to-infinitive	king not said here		ambush		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ambush=Location
5	go	past	king			to king's brother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location
6	say speech: assert	past	Dear brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	find	present · perfect	I	a hidden treasure			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic
8	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
9	go	infinitive	us not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	dig up	infinitive		treasure			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
11	share	present	king not said here	treasure		between us	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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