Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 49

Then Dummling asked once more for his bride, but the king was vexed that such an ugly fellow, whom everyone called Dummling, should take away his daughter, and he made a new condition; he must first find a man who could eat a whole mountain of bread.

Who acts: Dummling, everyone, man · What happens: ask, vex, call, take away, make, find · To what, where: king, ugly fellow, new condition, man, whole mountain · 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 (Dummling, everyone, man), 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 asked	advmod
2	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 asked	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 bride	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bride	nmod:poss
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 more	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vexed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 vexed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vexed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vexed	aux:pass
14	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 asked	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 fellow	mark
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 fellow	det:predet
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fellow	det
18	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fellow	amod
19	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vexed	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 take	obj
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 take	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 everyone	acl
24	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 everyone	punct
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fellow	parataxis
28	away	away	ADP	_	27 take	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nmod:poss
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 condition	det
36	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 condition	amod
37	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 find	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 find	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 find	aux
41	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 find	advmod
42	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 man	det
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 find	obj
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 eat	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 eat	aux
47	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 man	acl:relcl
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 mountain	det
49	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 mountain	amod
50	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eat	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 bread	case
52	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 mountain	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Dummling		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	vex	past · passive		the king			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	call	participle					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take away	should	everyone	such ugly fellow			tree rules
5	make	past	Dummling	a new condition			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Product
6	find	must	Dummling	a man		first property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
7	eat	could	a man	a whole mountain of bread			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient

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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