Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 22
‘It belongs to King Grisly-beard,’ answered he; ‘hadst thou taken him, all had been thine.’
Who acts: wood, thou · What happens: belong, answer, have, take · To what, where: beard, King
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, thou), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 belongs | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 belongs | nsubj |
| 3 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 belongs | obl |
| 6 | Grisly | grisly | ADV | _ | 8 beard | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grisly | punct |
| 8 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belongs | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 belongs | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 belongs | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 belongs | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hadst | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 hadst | punct |
| 15 | hadst | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 belongs | conj |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hadst | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 been | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 been | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 been | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 hadst | parataxis |
| 23 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 been | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belongs | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 belongs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | wood | beard | King | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | wood not said here | king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | wood not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | participle | thou | king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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