Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 3
He thereupon settled that they should travel, and that the one who could obtain the most splendid carpet should ascend the throne when he died.
Who acts: King, sons, one · What happens: settle, travel, obtain, ascend, die · To what, where: splendid carpet, throne
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, sons, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 settled | nsubj |
| 2 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 settled | advmod |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 travel | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 travel | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 travel | aux |
| 7 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 settled | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ascend | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ascend | cc |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 ascend | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ascend | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 obtain | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 obtain | aux |
| 15 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 carpet | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 splendid | advmod |
| 18 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 carpet | amod |
| 19 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 obtain | obj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 ascend | aux |
| 21 | ascend | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 settled | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 throne | det |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ascend | obj |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 died | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 died | nsubj |
| 26 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ascend | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past | King | thereupon property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | travel | should | sons = son | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | obtain | could | the one | the splendid carpet | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ascend | should | the one | the throne | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | die | past | King | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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