Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 71
The courtiers, however, became jealous of the Tailor, and wished him at the other end of the world. "
Who acts: courtiers · What happens: become, wish · To what, where: King, other end
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 (courtiers), 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 courtiers | det |
| 2 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 became | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 courtiers | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 became | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tailor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tailor | det |
| 10 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jealous | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wished | cc |
| 13 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wished | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 end | amod |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wished | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the courtiers | however, jealous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the courtiers not said here | King | at the other end of the world | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 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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