Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 55

The king, however, still vowed that he was his son, and said, ‘Is there no mark by which you would know me if I am really your son?’

Who acts: king, mark, you, I · What happens: vow, be, say, know · To what, where: son, 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 (king, mark, you, 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	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vowed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 vowed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 vowed	advmod
7	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 son	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 son	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 son	cop
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vowed	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 vowed	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Is	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Is	punct
18	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 Is	expl
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 mark	det
21	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Is	nsubj
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 know	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mark	acl:relcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 know	obj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 son	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 son	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 son	cop
31	really	really	ADV	_	33 son	advmod
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 son	nmod:poss
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 know	advcl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 Is	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 Is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vow	past	the king			still	however property	tree rules
2	is a	past	king	king's son				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the king not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	present	no mark		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	would	you	me			by no mark	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	I	your son				tree rules

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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