Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 74
So they gave it him, charging him to try it on a tree.
Who acts: sword · What happens: give, charge, try · To what, where: head, Heinel, tree
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), 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 | _ | 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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 charging | punct |
| 7 | charging | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 gave | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 charging | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 try | mark |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 charging | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 try | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 try | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | sword | head | Heinel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient it=Theme | |||
| 2 | charge | gerund | sword not said here | Heinel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | sword not said here | head | a tree | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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