Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 43
The second night twelve others will come: and the third night twenty-four, who will even cut off your head; but at the twelfth hour of that night their power is gone, and I shall be free, and will come and bring you the Water of Life, and will wash you with it, and bring you back to life and health.’
Who acts: second night, power, I · What happens: come, cut off, be, bring, wash, bring back · To what, where: head, Water, you, life
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 (second night, power, I), 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 night | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 others | nummod |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 night | conj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 four | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 four | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 night | amod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 four | nsubj |
| 13 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 four | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 twenty | punct |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 come | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cut | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 cut | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | aux |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 cut | advmod |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 four | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 cut | compound:prt |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 gone | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 gone | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 hour | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hour | det |
| 28 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hour | amod |
| 29 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gone | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 night | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hour | nmod |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 power | nmod:poss |
| 34 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gone | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 gone | cop |
| 36 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 free | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 free | cc |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 free | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 free | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 free | cop |
| 42 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gone | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 come | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 come | cc |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 come | aux |
| 46 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 42 free | parataxis |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 bring | cc |
| 48 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 46 come | conj |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 bring | obj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Water | det |
| 51 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 bring | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 Life | case |
| 53 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Water | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 wash | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 wash | cc |
| 56 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 wash | aux |
| 57 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 46 come | parataxis |
| 58 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 57 wash | obj |
| 59 | with | with | ADP | _ | 60 it | case |
| 60 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 wash | obl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 bring | punct |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 bring | cc |
| 63 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 57 wash | conj |
| 64 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 63 bring | obj |
| 65 | back | back | ADV | _ | 63 bring | advmod |
| 66 | to | to | ADP | _ | 67 life | case |
| 67 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 bring | obl |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 health | cc |
| 69 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 life | conj |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 71 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | the second night and twelve others | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut off | future | your head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | present | chambers's power | hour | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | shall | I | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | future | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | bring | infinitive | the Water of Life | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination water=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wash | future | you | with power | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with it=Instrument | ||||
| 8 | bring back | infinitive | you | life and health | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=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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