Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 71
Then they gave him the cloak, and he wished himself a fly, and in a moment he was a fly.
Who acts: sword, Heinel · What happens: give, wish, be · To what, where: cloak, Heinel, fly
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 (sword, Heinel), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cloak | det |
| 6 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wished | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wished | nsubj |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 wished | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fly | det |
| 13 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wished | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fly | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fly | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 moment | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fly | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fly | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fly | det |
| 22 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wished | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | sword | the cloak | Heinel | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cloak=Theme | ||
| 2 | wish | past | Heinel | Heinel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Heinel | a fly | moment | 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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