Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 98

Likewise in the castle lay great treasures, which were guarded by evil spirits, and these treasures would then be freed, and would make a poor man rich enough.

Who acts: evil spirits · What happens: lay, guard, free, make · To what, where: great treasures, castle, treasures, poor man

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 (evil spirits), 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	Likewise	likewise	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 castle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 castle	det
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 treasures	amod
7	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 guarded	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 guarded	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 guarded	aux:pass
11	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 treasures	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 spirits	case
13	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spirits	amod
14	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 guarded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 freed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 freed	cc
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 treasures	det
18	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 freed	nsubj:pass
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 freed	aux
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 freed	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 freed	aux:pass
22	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lay	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 make	cc
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lay	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
30	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 make	xcomp
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 rich	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present		great treasures	the castle		likewise property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme in castle=Destination
2	guard	past · passive	evil spirits	great treasures				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
3	free	would · passive		this treasures		then		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
4	make	would		a poor man			rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product

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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