Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 22
Now Heinel had found a friend in a good fairy, that was fond of him, and had told him what to do; for this fairy knew what good luck was in store for him.
Who acts: that, fairy, good luck · What happens: find, be, tell, do, know · To what, where: Heinel, friend, store · 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 (that, fairy, good luck), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 found | advmod |
| 2 | Heinel | Heinel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fairy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fairy | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fairy | amod |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fond | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 fond | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fond | cop |
| 14 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fairy | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fond | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 told | aux |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 found | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 do | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 told | ccomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 knew | mark |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 fairy | det |
| 28 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 told | conj |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 knew | obj |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 luck | amod |
| 32 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 store | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 store | cop |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 store | case |
| 35 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 what | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 store | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect · passive | Heinel | now | in a good fairy | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme friend=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | of friend; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | know | past | this fairy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is | past | good luck | store | for friend | tree rules |
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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