Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 88

However, he would enter into no parley with them, but only asked them if they would go in peace or not.

Who acts: Heinel, peers · What happens: enter, ask, go · To what, where: parley, peers, peace

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, peers), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 enter	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enter	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 enter	aux
5	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 parley	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 parley	det
8	parley	parley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enter	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 parley	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 asked	advmod
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enter	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	obj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 go	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	ccomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 peace	case
21	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 not	cc
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 peace	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 enter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	would	Heinel		no parley with peers	however property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into parley=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past		peers = peer			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go a condition, not said to happen	would	peers = peer		peace		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location

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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