Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 8

Then the merchant told him how all his wealth was gone to the bottom of the sea, and how he had nothing left but that little plot of land.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: tell, go, have, leave, plot · To what, where: man, wealth, nothing, land · 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 (merchant), 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	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 merchant	det
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 gone	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wealth	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wealth	nmod:poss
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux:pass
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 bottom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bottom	det
14	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bottom	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 had	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 had	obj
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 nothing	acl
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 plot	cc
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 plot	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plot	amod
28	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nothing	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 land	case
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plot	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the merchant		man	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · passive		man's wealth			to the bottom of the sea	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	past	merchant	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	leave	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	plot			land				nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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