Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 68

So saying he set out and travelled till he came to a hill, where three giants were sharing their father’s goods; and as they saw him pass they cried out and said, ‘Little men have sharp wits; he shall part the goods between us.’

Who acts: luck, three giants, giants, Little men · What happens: say, set out, travel, come, share, see · To what, where: hill, goods, luck, sharp wits · 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 (luck, three giants, giants, Little men), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 set	advcl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 travelled	cc
7	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 travelled	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sharing	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 sharing	advmod
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 giants	nummod
17	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sharing	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sharing	aux
19	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hill	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 goods	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 father	case
23	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 sharing	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 saw	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	obj
30	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 saw	xcomp
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cried	nsubj
32	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pass	ccomp
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 cried	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cried	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 have	punct
38	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 men	amod
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 have	nsubj
40	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 said	ccomp
41	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 wits	amod
42	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 have	obj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 part	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 part	nsubj
45	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 part	aux
46	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	parataxis
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 goods	det
48	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	46 part	nsubj
49	between	between	ADP	_	50 us	case
50	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 goods	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 part	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	luck not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	set out	past	luck			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	travel	past	luck not said here			tree rules
4	come	past	luck		a hill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
5	share	past · progressive	three giants	giants's father's goods		tree rules
6	see	past	giants = giant	luck		tree rules
7	pass	infinitive	luck not said here			tree rules
8	cry out speech: express	past	giants = giant			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: assert	past	giants = giant not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	have	present	Little men	sharp wits		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
11	part	shall	luck			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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