Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 13

About a month afterwards he went upstairs into a lumber-room to look for some old iron, that he might sell it and raise a little money; and there, instead of his iron, he saw a large pile of gold lying on the floor.

Who acts: money, large pile · What happens: go, look, sell, raise, see, lie · To what, where: lumber room, iron, little money, large pile, floor

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 (money, large pile), 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	About	about	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 month	det
3	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 room	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 room	det
10	lumber	lumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 lumber	punct
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	advcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 iron	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 iron	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 iron	amod
18	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sell	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 sell	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sell	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 sell	aux
23	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 look	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sell	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 raise	cc
26	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 sell	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 money	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 money	amod
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 raise	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 there	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 there	cc
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 went	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 iron	punct
34	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	37 iron	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 instead	fixed
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 iron	nmod:poss
37	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 saw	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 saw	nsubj
40	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 pile	det
42	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 pile	amod
43	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 saw	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 gold	case
45	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pile	nmod
46	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 pile	acl
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 floor	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 floor	det
49	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lying	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	money		a lumber room	month	instead money's iron; about, afterwards, upstairs property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	look	to-infinitive	money not said here				for some old iron	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for iron=Theme
3	sell	might	money	iron				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	raise	infinitive	money not said here	a little money				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
5	see	past	money	a large pile of gold				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pile=Stimulus
6	lie	gerund	a large pile of gold not said here		the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

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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