Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 72
‘The cloak is very well,’ said he: ‘now give me the sword.’
Who acts: cloak, Heinel · What happens: be, say, give · To what, where: sword, me · 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 (cloak, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cloak | det |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 well | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 give | advmod |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sword | det |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the cloak | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Heinel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | the sword | me | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sword=Theme |
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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