Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 101

The king looked at him, and as the youth pleased him, he said: ‘You may ask for three things to take into the castle with you, but they must be things without life.’

Who acts: king, youth, You, things · What happens: look, say, ask, take, be · To what, where: castle, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, youth, You, things), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 pleased	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pleased	nsubj
11	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pleased	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pleased	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
18	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 ask	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 ask	aux
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 things	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 things	nummod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ask	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 take	mark
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	xcomp
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 castle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 castle	det
28	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 take	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 things	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 things	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 things	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 things	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 things	cop
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ask	obl
37	without	without	ADP	_	38 life	case
38	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the king			at youth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	youth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	may	You			for three things; without life	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here		the castle	with you	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into castle=Destination
5	is a	must	things = thing	things			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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