Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 100

Then the Tailor demanded the promised reward of the King; but he repented of his promise, and began to think of some new plan to shake off the hero. "

Who acts: Tailor · What happens: demand, promise, repent, begin, think, shake off · To what, where: promised reward, hero, King

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tailor), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 demanded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tailor	det
3	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 demanded	nsubj
4	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reward	det
6	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 reward	amod
7	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demanded	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 King	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reward	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 repented	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 repented	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 repented	nsubj
14	repented	repent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 demanded	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 promise	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 promise	nmod:poss
17	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 repented	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 demanded	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 think	mark
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 plan	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 plan	det
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 plan	amod
26	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 think	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 shake	mark
28	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 think	advcl
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 shake	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hero	det
31	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shake	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 demanded	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 demanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	past	the Tailor	the promised reward of the King	then		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reward=Precondition
2	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	repent	past	Tailor			of Tailor's promise	tree rules
4	begin	past	the Tailor not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the Tailor not said here			of some new plan	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	shake off	to-infinitive	the Tailor not said here	the hero			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hero=Patient
7	reward			the King			nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient
8	promise		Tailor				nom promise «communication 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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