Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 69

Solely for that reason did I come here," was his answer; "I am quite willing to enter into the King's service."

Who acts: I, King · What happens: come, be, enter, service · To what, where: answer, service · 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 (I, 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	Solely	solely	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 reason	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Solely	obl
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 answer	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answer	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 answer	nmod:poss
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	parataxis
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 willing	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 willing	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 willing	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 willing	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 willing	advmod
19	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 enter	mark
21	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 willing	xcomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	26 service	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 service	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 King	case
26	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 enter	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	I		here	solely property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past		King's answer			tree rules
3	is	present	I			willing property	tree rules
4	enter	to-infinitive	I not said here		the King's service		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into service=Initial_Location
5	service		the 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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