Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 59
Then he gave him the ship which could sail on land and water, and when the king saw that, he could no longer prevent him from having his daughter.
Who acts: Dummling, ship, king · What happens: give, sail, see, prevent, have · To what, where: ship, man, land, that, daughter
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, ship, king), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ship | det |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sail | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sail | aux |
| 9 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ship | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sail | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 water | cc |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 land | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 prevent | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 prevent | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 prevent | aux |
| 24 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 prevent | advmod |
| 26 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 saw | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 prevent | obj |
| 28 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 29 having | mark |
| 29 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 prevent | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 having | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Dummling | the ship | man | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ship=Theme | ||
| 2 | sail | could | the ship | land and water | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the king | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | prevent | could | Dummling | man | long property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | gerund | Dummling not said here | Dummling's daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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