Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 51
So the crown came to Dummling, who lived long, and ruled his people temperately and justly.
Who acts: crown, Dummling · What happens: come, live, rule · To what, where: Dummling, people
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 (crown, Dummling), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Dummling | case |
| 6 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Dummling | acl:relcl |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lived | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ruled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ruled | cc |
| 13 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 people | nmod:poss |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ruled | obj |
| 16 | temperately | temperately | ADV | _ | 13 ruled | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 justly | cc |
| 18 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 16 temperately | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the crown | Dummling | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dummling=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Dummling | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rule | past | the crown not said here | Dummling's people | temperately property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result |
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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