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Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 121

The wife was pleased with the proposal; but the King's armor-bearer, who had overheard all, went to the young King and revealed the whole plot. "

Who acts: wife, armor bearer · What happens: be, overhear, go, reveal · To what, where: all, whole plot

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 (wife, armor bearer), 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

detnsubjcopcasedetoblpunctccdetnmod:posscasecompoundpunctnsubjpunctnsubjauxacl:relclobjpunctparataxiscasedetamodoblccconjdetamodobjpunctpunctrootTheDETwifeNOUNwasAUXpleasedADJwithADPtheDETproposalNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETKingPROPN'sPARTarmorNOUN-PUNCTbearerNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXoverheardVERBallDET,PUNCTwentVERBtoADPtheDETyoungADJKingPROPNandCCONJrevealedVERBtheDETwholeADJplotNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 wifedet
2wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing4 pleasednsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 pleasedcop
4pleasedpleasedADJDegree=Posrootroot
5withwithADP_7 proposalcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 proposaldet
7proposalproposalNOUNNumber=Sing4 pleasedobl
8;;PUNCT_15 bearerpunct
9butbutCCONJ_15 bearercc
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Kingdet
11KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing13 armornmod:poss
12's'sPART_11 Kingcase
13armorarmorNOUNNumber=Sing15 bearercompound
14--PUNCT_13 armorpunct
15bearerbearerNOUNNumber=Sing22 wentnsubj
16,,PUNCT_19 overheardpunct
17whowhoPRONPronType=Rel19 overheardnsubj
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 overheardaux
19overheardoverhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part15 beareracl:relcl
20allallDETPronType=Tot19 overheardobj
21,,PUNCT_22 wentpunct
22wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 pleasedparataxis
23totoADP_26 Kingcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Kingdet
25youngyoungADJDegree=Pos26 Kingamod
26KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing22 wentobl
27andandCCONJ_28 revealedcc
28revealedrevealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 wentconj
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 plotdet
30wholewholeADJDegree=Pos31 plotamod
31plotplotNOUNNumber=Sing28 revealedobj
32..PUNCT_4 pleasedpunct
33""PUNCT_4 pleasedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe wifewith the proposal; pleased propertytree rules
2overhearpast · perfectarmor bearerallvn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
3gopastarmor bearerto the young Kingvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
4revealpastarmor bearer not said herethe whole plotvn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Topic

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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