Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 70

Heinel said they must first let him try these wonderful things, then he might know how to set a value upon them.

Who acts: Heinel, sword · What happens: say, let, try, know, set · To what, where: Heinel, wonderful things, value · 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, sword), 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	Heinel	Heinel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 things	det
10	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 try	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 know	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 set	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 set	mark
19	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 know	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 value	det
21	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Heinel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	must	sword	Heinel		first property	tree rules
3	try	infinitive	Heinel not said here	this wonderful things			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	know	might	Heinel		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	set	to-infinitive		a value		upon sword	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent value=Theme upon they=Destination

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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