Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 120
The King comforted her by saying, "This night leave your chamber-door open: my servants shall stand outside, and when he is asleep they shall come in, bind him, and carry him away to a ship, which shall take him out into the wide world."
Who acts: King, servants · What happens: comfort, say, leave, stand, be, come in · To what, where: Queen, chamber door, King, wide world · Speech: someone speaks here
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, servants), 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 | 3 comforted | nsubj |
| 3 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comforted | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 saying | mark |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comforted | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
| 9 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 door | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 door | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 chamber | punct |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | obj |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leave | xcomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 stand | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 servants | nmod:poss |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stand | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stand | aux |
| 21 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comforted | parataxis |
| 22 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 21 stand | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 come | cc |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 asleep | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 asleep | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 asleep | cop |
| 28 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 come | advcl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 come | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | aux |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 stand | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 come | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bind | punct |
| 34 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 stand | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 bind | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 carry | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 carry | cc |
| 38 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 stand | parataxis |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 carry | obj |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 carry | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 ship | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 ship | det |
| 43 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 away | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 take | punct |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 take | nsubj |
| 46 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 take | aux |
| 47 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 carry | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 take | obj |
| 49 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 take | compound:prt |
| 50 | into | into | ADP | _ | 53 world | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 world | det |
| 52 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 world | amod |
| 53 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 take | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 stand | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | the King | Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | your chamber door | night | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand in a quote | shall | my servants | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | King | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come in in a quote | shall | servants = servant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | bind in a quote | infinitive | my servants not said here | King | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 8 | carry in a quote | infinitive | King | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 9 | take out in a quote | shall | King | the wide world | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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