Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 30

But he would not, and said that it would be a very hazardous thing; for if the least ray of the torch-light should fall upon him his enchantment would become still worse, for he should be changed into a dove, and be forced to wander about the world for seven long years.

Who acts: wedding, least ray, enchantment, feast · What happens: say, be, fall, become, change, force · To what, where: hazardous thing, feast, dove, torch light · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding, least ray, enchantment, feast), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 would	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 would	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 would	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 thing	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thing	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 thing	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 thing	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thing	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 hazardous	advmod
14	hazardous	hazardous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 fall	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 fall	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 fall	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ray	det
20	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 ray	amod
21	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fall	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 light	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 light	det
24	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 light	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 torch	punct
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ray	nmod
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fall	aux
28	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fall	obl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 enchantment	nmod:poss
32	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 become	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 become	aux
34	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fall	parataxis
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 worse	advmod
36	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 become	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 changed	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 changed	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 changed	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 changed	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 changed	aux:pass
42	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 fall	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 dove	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 dove	det
45	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 changed	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 forced	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 forced	cc
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 forced	aux:pass
49	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 wander	mark
51	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 forced	xcomp
52	about	about	ADP	_	54 world	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 world	det
54	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 wander	obl
55	for	for	ADP	_	58 years	case
56	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 years	nummod
57	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 years	amod
58	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 wander	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	wedding	a hazardous thing			tree rules
3	fall a condition, not said to happen	should	the least ray of the torch light			upon feast	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	become	would	feast's enchantment			bad property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	change	should · passive		feast		into a dove result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into dove=Result
6	force	infinitive · passive					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: clause=Topic
7	wander	to-infinitive			year	about the world	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory
8	ray			the torch light			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
9	enchant		feast				nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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