Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 48
To this, again, the King consented, and the peasants were first given trial.
Who acts: King · What happens: consent, give · To what, where: peasants
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), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 consented | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 consented | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 again | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 consented | nsubj |
| 8 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 given | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peasants | det |
| 12 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 given | advmod |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 consented | advcl |
| 16 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the King | again | to this | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past · passive | the peasants | first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient trial=Theme |
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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