Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 48
But the queen was against his going, and said, ‘I know well that misfortunes will come upon us if you go.’
Who acts: queen, I, misfortunes, you · What happens: go, say, know, come · 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 (queen, I, misfortunes, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 going | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 5 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 know | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 17 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | advcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the queen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the queen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come | future | misfortunes | upon us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location | ||||
| 5 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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