Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 41

This night twelve men will come: their faces will be black, and they will be dressed in chain armour.

Who acts: night twelve men, faces · What happens: come, be, dress · To what, where: chambers, chain armour

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 (night twelve men, faces), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 men	compound
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 black	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 faces	nmod:poss
9	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 black	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 black	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 black	cop
12	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 come	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dressed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dressed	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dressed	nsubj:pass
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 dressed	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 dressed	aux:pass
18	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 black	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 armour	case
20	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 armour	compound
21	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dressed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	future	night twelve men				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	future	chambers's faces			black property	tree rules
3	dress	future · passive		chambers = chamber	chain armour		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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