Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 115

The Tailor now ordered the huntsmen up, that they might see his prisoner with their own eyes; but our hero presented himself before the King, who was obliged at last, whether he would or no, to keep his word, and surrender his daughter and the half of his kingdom.

Who acts: Tailor, huntsmen, hero · What happens: order, see, present, oblige, keep, surrender · To what, where: huntsmen, prisoner, Tailor, King, last, word

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, huntsmen, hero), 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 Tailor	det
2	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ordered	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ordered	advmod
4	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 huntsmen	det
6	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ordered	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 huntsmen	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ordered	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 prisoner	nmod:poss
14	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 eyes	amod
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 presented	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 presented	cc
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hero	nmod:poss
22	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 presented	nsubj
23	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ordered	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 presented	obj
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 King	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 presented	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 obliged	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 obliged	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 obliged	aux:pass
31	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 King	acl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 last	case
33	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 obliged	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 would	punct
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	37 would	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 would	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 obliged	advcl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 no	cc
39	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	37 would	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 keep	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 keep	mark
42	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 presented	advcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 word	nmod:poss
44	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 keep	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 surrender	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 surrender	cc
47	surrender	surrender	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 keep	advcl
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 daughter	nmod:poss
49	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 surrender	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 half	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 half	det
52	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	49 daughter	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 kingdom	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 kingdom	nmod:poss
55	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 half	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the Tailor	the huntsmen		now		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Theme
2	see	might	huntsmen = huntsman	Tailor's prisoner			with huntsmen's own eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prisoner=Stimulus
3	present	past	our hero	Tailor		before the King		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	oblige	past · passive		the King	last			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	keep	to-infinitive	our hero not said here	Tailor's word				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
6	surrender	infinitive	our hero not said here	Tailor's daughter and the half of Tailor's kingdom				vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
7	word		Tailor					nom word «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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