Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 49

Then there arose a quarrel between them; and the star-gazer said, ‘If I had not found the princess out, all your skill would have been of no use; therefore she ought to be mine.’

Who acts: star gazer, I, skill · What happens: arise, say, not find out, be · To what, where: quarrel, princess, mine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star gazer, I, skill), 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	3 arose	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 arose	expl
3	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quarrel	det
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arose	obj
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quarrel	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gazer	det
11	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gazer	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 star	punct
13	gazer	gazer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
17	If	if	SCONJ	_	21 found	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 found	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 found	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 found	advmod
21	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	21 found	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 use	punct
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 skill	det:predet
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 skill	nmod:poss
28	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 use	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 use	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 use	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 use	cop
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 use	case
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 use	det
34	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	advcl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 ought	punct
36	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	38 ought	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 ought	nsubj
38	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 arose	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	41 mine	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 mine	cop
41	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 ought	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past		a quarrel	there	then	between stitches = stitch	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quarrel=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the star gazer					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not find out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	the princess				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
4	is	would · perfect	your skill				of no use	tree rules
5	is a	to-infinitive		mine				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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