Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 46
Once more the brothers loudly expressed their discontent, and gave the King no peace, declaring--
Who acts: brothers · What happens: express, give, declare, discontent · To what, where: discontent, peace, King
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 (brothers), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 expressed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 expressed | nsubj |
| 5 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 6 expressed | advmod |
| 6 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 discontent | nmod:poss |
| 8 | discontent | discontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expressed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 expressed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 peace | det |
| 15 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 declaring | punct |
| 17 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 gave | advcl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | the brothers | brothers's discontent | loudly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discontent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | the brothers not said here | no peace | the King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient peace=Theme | |||
| 3 | declare speech: other | gerund | the brothers not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | discontent | brothers = brother | nom discontent «feeling transitive»: 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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