Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 16

The boy one day asked what was the matter, but his father would not tell for some time; at last, however, he said that he had, without knowing it, sold him for gold to a little, ugly-looking, black dwarf, and that the twelve years were coming round when he must keep his word.

Who acts: boy, father, twelve years · What happens: ask, be, not tell, say, have, know · To what, where: matter, father, little, black dwarf, word · 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 (boy, father, twelve years), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 matter	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 matter	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 time	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 last	punct
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tell	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
24	however	however	ADV	_	27 said	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 however	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 knowing	punct
32	without	without	SCONJ	_	33 knowing	mark
33	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 had	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knowing	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sold	punct
36	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sold	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 gold	case
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sold	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 little	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 little	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sold	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 looking	punct
44	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 looking	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 ugly	punct
46	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 sold	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 dwarf	punct
48	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dwarf	amod
49	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 looking	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 coming	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 coming	cc
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 coming	mark
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 years	det
54	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 years	nummod
55	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 coming	nsubj
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 coming	aux
57	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 asked	conj
58	round	round	ADV	_	57 coming	advmod
59	when	when	SCONJ	_	62 keep	mark
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 keep	nsubj
61	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 keep	aux
62	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 coming	advcl
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 word	nmod:poss
64	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 keep	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the boy					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the matter				tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert	would	boy's father			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	father				however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	past	father					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	know	gerund	father not said here	matter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	sell	past	father not said here	father	a little		for gold	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme for gold=Asset to little=Recipient
8	look	gerund	father not said here	black dwarf				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
9	come round	past · progressive	the twelve years				round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	keep	must	father	boy's word				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
11	word		boy					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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