Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 29

Here I discern the signs and motions of the heavens and the stars; the laws that control the winds; the number of the sands on the seashore; the healing of the sick; the virtues of all simples, of birds, and of precious stones.

Who acts: I, laws · What happens: discern, control, sign · To what, where: signs, winds, heavens

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 (I, laws), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 discern	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 discern	nsubj
3	discern	discern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 signs	det
5	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 discern	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 motions	cc
7	motions	motion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 signs	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 heavens	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heavens	det
10	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 signs	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stars	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stars	det
13	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heavens	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 laws	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 laws	det
16	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 discern	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 control	nsubj
18	control	control	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 laws	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 winds	det
20	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 control	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 number	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 number	det
23	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 discern	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 sands	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sands	det
26	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 number	nmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 seashore	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 seashore	det
29	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sands	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 healing	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 healing	det
32	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 number	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 sick	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sick	det
35	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 healing	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 virtues	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 virtues	det
38	virtues	virtue	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 number	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 simples	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 simples	det
41	simples	simple	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 virtues	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 birds	punct
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 birds	case
44	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 virtues	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 stones	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 stones	cc
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 stones	case
48	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 stones	amod
49	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 virtues	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 discern	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discern	present	I	the signs of the heavens and the stars and motions	here	the laws obl	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus
2	control	present	the laws	the winds			vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
3	sign			the heavens and the stars			nom sign «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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