Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 37
‘Here,’ said he to himself, ‘must I find the prize the good fairy told me of.’
Who acts: man, I, prize · What happens: say, find, tell · To what, where: man, me · 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 (man, I, prize), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prize | det |
| 15 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fairy | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fairy | amod |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 told | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | man | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | must | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the prize | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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