Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 4

At last it was so big that it filled a cart, and two oxen could hardly draw it; and the gardener knew not what in the world to do with it, nor whether it would be a blessing or a curse to him.

Who acts: seed, two oxen, gardener · What happens: be, fill, draw, not know, do · To what, where: last, cart, seed, world, blessing, gardener

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 (seed, two oxen, gardener), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 big	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 big	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 filled	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 filled	nsubj
9	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cart	det
11	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 filled	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 draw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 draw	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 oxen	nummod
15	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 draw	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 draw	aux
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 draw	advmod
18	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 filled	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 draw	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knew	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gardener	det
23	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 big	conj
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 knew	advmod
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 knew	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knew	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 knew	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 blessing	punct
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	41 blessing	cc
36	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	41 blessing	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 blessing	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 blessing	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 blessing	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 blessing	det
41	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	conj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 curse	cc
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 curse	det
44	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 blessing	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 blessing	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	seed			last	big property	tree rules
2	fill	past	seed	a cart				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cart=Patient
3	draw	could	two oxen	seed			hardly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not know	past	the gardener			the world		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	do	to-infinitive	the gardener not said here				with seed	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	would	seed	a blessing or a curse	gardener			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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