Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 2

When the King grew old and feeble, feeling that he was nearing his end, he wished to leave the crown to one of his three sons, but could not decide to which.

Who acts: King · What happens: grow, feel, near, wish, leave, not decide · To what, where: end, crown, one

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 (King), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 grew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wished	advcl
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feeble	cc
7	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 old	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feeling	punct
9	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grew	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 nearing	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nearing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nearing	aux
13	nearing	near	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 feeling	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 end	nmod:poss
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nearing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wished	nsubj
18	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 leave	mark
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wished	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 crown	det
22	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leave	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 leave	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 sons	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sons	nmod:poss
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 sons	nummod
28	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 decide	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 decide	cc
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 decide	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 decide	advmod
33	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wished	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 decide	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the King			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	gerund	the King not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	near	past · progressive	King	King's end			tree rules
4	wish	past	King				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	the crown	one of King's three sons		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to one=Recipient
6	not decide	could	King not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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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