Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 14
At the sight of this he was overjoyed, and forgetting all about his son, went into trade again, and became a richer merchant than before.
What happens: overjoy, forget, go, become, sight · To what, where: money, sight, son, trade, richer merchant, this
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overjoyed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sight | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 8 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 11 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 son | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 son | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forgetting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgetting | punct |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overjoyed | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 trade | case |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 became | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 became | cc |
| 23 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 merchant | det |
| 25 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 merchant | amod |
| 26 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 became | xcomp |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 before | case |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 became | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | money | the sight of this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | gerund | money's son | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | past | trade | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into trade=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | become | past | a richer merchant | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | sight | this | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/51/14/