Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 29
The old man grinned, and showed his teeth, as if he should have been very glad to get into the circle if he could.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: grin, show, be, get · To what, where: teeth, circle
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 (old man, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grinned | nsubj |
| 4 | grinned | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 showed | cc |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grinned | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 showed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 glad | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 glad | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 glad | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 glad | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 glad | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 glad | advmod |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 showed | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 glad | advcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 circle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 circle | det |
| 23 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obl |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 could | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grinned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | past | the old man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | past | the old man not said here | man's teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | should · perfect | man | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | man not said here | the circle | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into circle=Destination |
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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