Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 59

But the merchant said, ‘that can never be true; he must be a fine king truly who travels about in a shepherd’s frock!’

Who acts: merchant, that, fine king · What happens: say, not be, be, travel · To what, where: fine king, frock · 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 (merchant, that, fine king), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 true	punct
6	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	11 true	mark
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 true	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 true	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 true	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 true	cop
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 king	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 king	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 king	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 king	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 king	det
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 king	amod
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 travels	nsubj
19	truly	truly	ADV	_	21 travels	advmod
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 travels	nsubj
21	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	parataxis
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 travels	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 frock	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 shepherd	det
25	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 frock	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 shepherd	case
27	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 travels	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the merchant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	can	that			true property	tree rules
3	is a	must	merchant	a fine king			tree rules
4	travel	present	a fine king		a shepherd's frock	about, truly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in frock=Trajectory

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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