Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 74
In their anger they came to the determination to resign, and they went all together to the King, and asked his permission, saying, "We are not prepared to keep company with a man who kills seven at one blow."
Who acts: courtiers, man, King · What happens: come, resign, go, ask, say, not prepare · To what, where: anger, permission, We, company, seven, one blow · 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 (courtiers, man, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 anger | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 anger | nmod:poss |
| 3 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 determination | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 determination | det |
| 8 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 resign | mark |
| 10 | resign | resign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 determination | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 together | advmod |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asked | cc |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 permission | nmod:poss |
| 24 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saying | punct |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 asked | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 prepared | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 prepared | punct |
| 29 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 prepared | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 prepared | aux:pass |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 prepared | advmod |
| 32 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 saying | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 keep | mark |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 prepared | xcomp |
| 35 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keep | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 man | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keep | obl |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 kills | nsubj |
| 40 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 man | acl:relcl |
| 41 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 kills | obj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 blow | case |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 blow | nummod |
| 44 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 kills | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | courtiers = courtier | courtiers's anger | to the determination | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to determination=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | resign | to-infinitive | courtiers = courtier not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | courtiers = courtier | to the King; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | King's permission | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | not prepare in a quote | present · passive | We | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | keep not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | company | with a man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme | ||||
| 8 | kill in a quote | present | a man | seven | one blow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme | |||
| 9 | anger | courtiers = courtier | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | permit | King | nom permission «communication 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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