Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 35

He was undecided, and knew not if he were worthy of this, but the doves counselled him to do it, and at length he said yes.

Who acts: Pope, doves · What happens: be, not know, counsell, do, say · To what, where: Pope, token, length · 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 (Pope, doves), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 undecided	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undecided	cop
3	undecided	undecided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knew	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 knew	cc
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undecided	conj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 knew	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 worthy	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 worthy	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worthy	cop
11	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knew	ccomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 this	case
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 worthy	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 counselled	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 counselled	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 doves	det
17	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 counselled	nsubj
18	counselled	counsell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undecided	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 counselled	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 counselled	xcomp
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 do	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 length	case
26	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undecided	parataxis
29	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	28 said	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 undecided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Pope			undecided property	tree rules
2	not know	past	Pope not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Pope			of this; worthy property	tree rules
4	counsell	past	the doves	Pope			tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	the doves not said here	token			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert	past	Pope		length		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

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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