Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 2
He had two richly laden ships then making a voyage upon the seas, in which he had embarked all his wealth, in the hope of making great gains, when the news came that both were lost.
Who acts: merchant, hope, news · What happens: have, lade, make, embark, come, lose · To what, where: two laden ships, voyage, wealth, hope, great gains, both
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, hope, news), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ships | nummod |
| 4 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 5 laden | advmod |
| 5 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ships | amod |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 making | advmod |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voyage | det |
| 10 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 seas | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seas | det |
| 13 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 voyage | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 embarked | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 embarked | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 embarked | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 embarked | aux |
| 19 | embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 wealth | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 embarked | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hope | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hope | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hope | det |
| 26 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 embarked | obl |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 making | mark |
| 28 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 hope | acl |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gains | amod |
| 30 | gains | gain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 making | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 came | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 news | det |
| 34 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 hope | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 lost | mark |
| 37 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 lost | aux:pass |
| 39 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 came | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | merchant | two laden ships | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | richly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | merchant not said here | a voyage | then | upon the seas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product | ||
| 4 | embark | past · perfect | merchant | merchant's wealth | the hope | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | gerund | the hope not said here | great gains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gain=Product | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | lose | past · passive | both | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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