Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 110
The King, however, would not yet deliver over the promised reward, and made a third demand, that, before the marriage, the Tailor should capture a wild boar which did much damage, and he should have the huntsmen to help him. "
Who acts: King, Tailor, wild boar, huntsmen · What happens: not deliver, promise, make, capture, do, have · To what, where: promised reward, third demand, wild boar, much damage, huntsmen, Tailor
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 (King, Tailor, wild boar, huntsmen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 deliver | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 deliver | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 deliver | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 deliver | advmod |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 deliver | advmod |
| 9 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 reward | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reward | det |
| 12 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 reward | amod |
| 13 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deliver | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 deliver | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 demand | det |
| 18 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 demand | amod |
| 19 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 that | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 capture | punct |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 marriage | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 marriage | det |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 capture | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 marriage | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tailor | det |
| 28 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 capture | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 capture | aux |
| 30 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 deliver | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 boar | det |
| 32 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 boar | amod |
| 33 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 capture | obj |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 did | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 boar | acl:relcl |
| 36 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 damage | amod |
| 37 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 did | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 have | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 capture | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 huntsmen | det |
| 44 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 have | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 help | mark |
| 46 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 have | xcomp |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 help | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 deliver | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deliver | would | the King | the promised reward | yet | however property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | the King not said here | a third demand | that obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset demand=Product | |||
| 4 | capture | should | the Tailor | a wild boar | before the marriage | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme | |||
| 5 | do | past | a wild boar | much damage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | have | should | Tailor | the huntsmen | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | help | to-infinitive | the huntsmen not said here | Tailor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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