Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 67
The King took advice, and sent one of his courtiers to the Tailor to beg for his fighting services, if he should be awake.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, send, beg, be, service · To what, where: advice, one, 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), 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 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sent | cc |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sent | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 courtiers | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Tailor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tailor | det |
| 14 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 beg | mark |
| 16 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 services | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 services | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 services | compound |
| 20 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beg | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 awake | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 awake | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 awake | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 awake | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 awake | cop |
| 26 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beg | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the King | advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the King not said here | one of King's courtiers | the Tailor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to tailor=Destination | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | the King not said here | for King's fighting services | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for service=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | should | King | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | service | King | nom service «act 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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