Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 19
So they ate and drank, and after that the little man said: ‘Since you have a good heart, and are willing to divide what you have, I will give you good luck.
Who acts: cake, little man, you, I · What happens: eat, drink, say, have, be, divide · To what, where: good heart, good luck, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cake, little man, you, I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ate | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drank | cc |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ate | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 16 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 heart | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heart | amod |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 willing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 willing | cc |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 willing | cop |
| 25 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 have | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 divide | mark |
| 27 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 willing | xcomp |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 divide | obj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 give | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 give | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 give | aux |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 willing | conj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 luck | amod |
| 37 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | cake not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | present | you | a good heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | you not said here | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | divide | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | give | future | I | good luck | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient luck=Theme |
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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