Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 67

‘I can never go back to my father’s house,’ said he; ‘they would say I am a sorcerer: I will journey forth into the world, till I come again to my kingdom.’

Who acts: I, luck, misfortunes · What happens: not go back, say, be, journey, come · To what, where: sorcerer, world, kingdom · 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 (I, luck, misfortunes), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 house	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 house	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sorcerer	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sorcerer	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sorcerer	det
24	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	ccomp
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 journey	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 journey	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 journey	aux
28	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	conj
29	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 journey	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 journey	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 come	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 come	nsubj
36	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 come	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 kingdom	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 kingdom	nmod:poss
40	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go back	can	I					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	luck					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	would	misfortunes = misfortune					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	I	a sorcerer				tree rules
5	journey	future	I		the world		forth property	tree rules
6	come	present	I		my kingdom	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location

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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