Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 45
After glancing at the three, the King said: "Without doubt, at my death the kingdom will be Dummling's."
Who acts: King, doubt, my · What happens: glance, say, be, die · 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 (King, doubt, my), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 glancing | mark |
| 2 | glancing | glance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 three | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 three | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 glancing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 glancing | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 doubt | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 doubt | punct |
| 12 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 13 doubt | case |
| 13 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Dummling | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 death | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 death | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 death | nmod:poss |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doubt | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kingdom | det |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Dummling | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 Dummling | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Dummling | cop |
| 22 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Dummling | case |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 Dummling | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Dummling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | gerund | the King not said here | at the three | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at three=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | doubt and my death | 's Dummling | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die in a quote | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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