Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 25
Then all who heard this rejoiced, and the lord of the castle said he would adopt him as a son if he accomplished it successfully.
Who acts: this, lord · What happens: hear, rejoice, say, adopt, accomplish · To what, where: this, youth, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, lord), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lord | det |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lord | nmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 adopt | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 adopt | aux |
| 17 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 adopt | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 son | det |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 adopt | obl |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 accomplished | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 accomplished | nsubj |
| 24 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 adopt | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 accomplished | obj |
| 26 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 24 accomplished | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | this | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | participle | this not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the lord of the castle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | adopt | would | Lord | youth | as a son | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as son=Attribute | |||
| 5 | accomplish a condition, not said to happen | past | Lord | castle | successfully property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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