Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 33

Dummling was there before them with his valuable ring, and immediately upon his showing it, the father declared that in justice the kingdom should be his.

Who acts: Dummling, father, kingdom · What happens: be, show, declare · To what, where: ring, justice, Dummling

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 (Dummling, father, kingdom), 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	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 there	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 there	cop
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 there	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 ring	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ring	nmod:poss
8	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ring	amod
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 there	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 showing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 showing	cc
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	15 showing	advmod
13	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	15 showing	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 showing	nsubj
15	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 there	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declared	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 father	det
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 declared	nsubj
20	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 there	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 justice	mark
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 justice	case
23	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 declared	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 kingdom	det
25	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 justice	appos
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 his	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 his	cop
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 kingdom	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dummling		before brothers = brother	with Dummling's valuable ring; there property	tree rules
2	show	gerund	Dummling	ring		immediately property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
3	declare speech: other	past	the father	justice			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Attribute
4	is a	should	the kingdom not said here	Dummling			tree rules

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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