Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 13

He heaped up a great deal of gold, and at last thought to himself, ‘Of what use is this gold to me whilst I am at home?

Who acts: huntsman, use, I · What happens: heap up, be, deal · To what, where: great deal, last thought, gold, home

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, use, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heaped	nsubj
2	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 heaped	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heaped	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 thought	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thought	amod
13	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heaped	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thought	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 what	punct
18	Of	of	ADP	_	19 what	case
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 heaped	advcl
20	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gold	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 gold	cop
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 gold	det
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 what	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 what	obl
26	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	30 home	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 home	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 home	cop
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 home	case
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 what	advcl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 heaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	heap up	past	huntsman	a great deal of gold	last thought to huntsman	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent deal=Theme at thought=Destination
2	is a	present	use	this gold		tree rules
3	is	present	I		home	tree rules
4	deal			gold		nom deal «act 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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