Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 26
‘They belong to King Grisly-beard, hadst thou taken him, they had all been thine.’
Who acts: meadows, thou · What happens: belong, have, take, be · To what, where: King, thine
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 (meadows, 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 belong | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hadst | obl |
| 6 | Grisly | grisly | ADV | _ | 8 beard | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grisly | punct |
| 8 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 King | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hadst | punct |
| 10 | hadst | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 belong | ccomp |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 taken | nsubj |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hadst | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taken | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 been | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 been | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 been | aux |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 been | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 thine | cop |
| 19 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 hadst | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | meadows = meadow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | meadows = meadow not said here | King beard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | participle | thou | king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | participle | thine | 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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