Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 139
‘My father is a mighty king, and gold have I in plenty as great as I require.’
Who acts: father, gold, I · What happens: be, have, require · To what, where: mighty king
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, gold, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 great | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 plenty | advmod |
| 14 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 great | nsubj |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 require | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 require | nsubj |
| 19 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 great | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My father | a mighty king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | gold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | require | present | I | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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