Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 53
He led him to the king’s palace where all the flour in the whole Kingdom was collected, and from it he caused a huge mountain of bread to be baked.
Who acts: Dummling · What happens: lead, collect, cause, bake · To what, where: man, palace, flour, huge mountain
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), 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 | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 collected | advmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 flour | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flour | det |
| 12 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Kingdom | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Kingdom | amod |
| 16 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flour | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 collected | aux:pass |
| 18 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 palace | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 caused | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 caused | cc |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 caused | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 caused | nsubj |
| 24 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mountain | det |
| 26 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 mountain | amod |
| 27 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caused | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 bread | case |
| 29 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mountain | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 baked | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 baked | aux:pass |
| 32 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 caused | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Dummling | man | the king's palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 2 | collect | past · passive | all flour in the whole Kingdom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cause | past | Dummling | a huge mountain of bread | flour | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mountain=Patient | |||
| 4 | bake | to-infinitive · passive | Dummling not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V» |
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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