Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 28

When therefore he went out, all four of them confessed to him that they had stolen the money, and said that they would willingly restore it and give him a heavy sum into the bargain, if he would not denounce them, for if he did they would be hanged.

Who acts: doctor, four, crabs · What happens: go out, confess, steal, say, restore, give · To what, where: doctor, crabs, money, heavy sum, bargain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor, four, crabs), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 confessed	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 four	det
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 confessed	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 four	nmod
11	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 confessed	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 stolen	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stolen	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stolen	aux
17	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 confessed	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 money	det
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stolen	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 confessed	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 restore	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 restore	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 restore	aux
26	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	27 restore	advmod
27	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 restore	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 give	cc
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 restore	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sum	det
33	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sum	amod
34	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 bargain	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bargain	det
37	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 denounce	punct
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 denounce	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 denounce	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 denounce	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 denounce	advmod
43	denounce	denounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 restore	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 denounce	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 hanged	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 hanged	mark
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 hanged	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 hanged	nsubj
49	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 hanged	aux
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 hanged	nsubj:pass
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 hanged	aux
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 hanged	aux:pass
53	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 denounce	parataxis
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	doctor				therefore property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	confess	past	all four of crabs		doctor			vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	steal	past · perfect · passive		crabs = crab				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary money=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	all four of crabs not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	restore	would	crabs = crab	money			willingly property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	give	infinitive	crabs = crab not said here	a heavy sum	doctor	the bargain		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sum=Theme
7	not denounce a condition, not said to happen	would	doctor	crabs = crab				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	hange a condition, not said to happen	would · past · passive · do-support		doctor				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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