Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a King who had three sons; the two elder were learned and bright, but the youngest said very little and appeared somewhat foolish, so he was always known as Dummling.

Who acts: youngest · What happens: live, have, learn, say, appear, know · To what, where: King, three sons, two elder, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sons	nummod
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 learned	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 elder	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 elder	nummod
16	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 learned	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 learned	aux:pass
18	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lived	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bright	cc
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 learned	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 youngest	det
24	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 learned	parataxis
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 little	advmod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 said	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 appeared	cc
29	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	conj
30	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	31 foolish	advmod
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 appeared	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 known	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	37 known	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 known	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 known	aux:pass
36	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	37 known	advmod
37	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 learned	conj
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 Dummling	case
39	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 known	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a King	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	have	past		three sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	learn	past · passive		the two elder				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	the youngest	little				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent little=Topic
5	appear	past	the youngest not said here				foolish property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	know	past · passive		King			as Dummling; always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as dummling=Attribute

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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