Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 27
"Well," agreed the father, "the one who brings me the most magnificent ring shall succeed to my throne," and once more he took his sons outside the Palace.
Who acts: father, one, Dummling · What happens: agree, bring, succeed, take · To what, where: magnificent ring, father, sons · 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 (father, one, Dummling), 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 | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 agreed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 succeed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 succeed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 succeed | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 brings | nsubj |
| 13 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 brings | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ring | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 magnificent | advmod |
| 17 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ring | amod |
| 18 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brings | obj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 succeed | aux |
| 20 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 throne | nmod:poss |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 succeed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 succeed | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 succeed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 took | cc |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 more | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 took | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sons | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 took | obj |
| 33 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 35 Palace | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Palace | det |
| 35 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the father | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present | the one | the magnificent ring | the father = father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination ring=Theme | |||
| 3 | succeed in a quote | shall | the one | to my throne | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Dummling | Dummling's sons | outside the Palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=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: «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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