Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 57

Then he showed them the mark, and they knew that what he had said was true.

Who acts: Heinel, care · What happens: show, know, say, be · To what, where: care · 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 (Heinel, care), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 showed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mark	det
6	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knew	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 true	mark
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 true	nsubj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 what	acl:relcl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knew	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	Heinel	care	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient mark=Topic
2	know	past	care				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Heinel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past				true property	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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