Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 10

The merchant thought this was no great thing to ask; that it would most likely be his dog or his cat, or something of that sort, but forgot his little boy Heinel; so he agreed to the bargain, and signed and sealed the bond to do what was asked of him.

Who acts: merchant, this, thing · What happens: think, be, ask, forget, agree, sign · To what, where: great thing, dog, little boy, bond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, this, thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 thing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 thing	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thing	acl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 dog	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 dog	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dog	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 dog	aux
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 likely	advmod
16	likely	likely	ADV	_	19 dog	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 dog	cop
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dog	nmod:poss
19	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 cat	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cat	nmod:poss
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dog	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 something	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 something	cc
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 cat	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 sort	case
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 sort	det
28	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 something	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forgot	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 forgot	cc
31	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 boy	nmod:poss
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 boy	amod
34	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forgot	obj
35	Heinel	Heinel	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 boy	appos
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 agreed	punct
37	so	so	ADV	_	39 agreed	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 agreed	nsubj
39	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 forgot	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 bargain	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bargain	det
42	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 agreed	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 signed	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 signed	cc
45	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 forgot	parataxis
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 sealed	cc
47	sealed	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 signed	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 bond	det
49	bond	bond	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sealed	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 do	mark
51	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 bond	acl
52	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	54 asked	nsubj:pass
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 asked	aux:pass
54	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 do	advcl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 him	case
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 asked	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the merchant			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	this	no great thing		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	would	thing	merchant's dog or merchant's cat	likely property	tree rules
5	forget	past	the merchant not said here	merchant's little boy		tree rules
6	agree speech: agree	past	merchant		to the bargain	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sign	past				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	seal	past		the bond		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bond=Patient
9	do	to-infinitive		the bond not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	ask speech: ask	past · passive			of merchant	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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