Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 75
The King was sorry to lose all his devoted servants for the sake of one, and wished that he had never seen the Tailor, and would gladly have now been rid of him.
Who acts: King · What happens: be, lose, wish, not see, have · To what, where: devoted servants, Tailor · 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 (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 | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lose | mark |
| 6 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sorry | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 servants | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 servants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 servants | amod |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lose | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sake | det |
| 13 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 servants | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sake | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wished | cc |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 seen | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 seen | advmod |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 wished | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Tailor | det |
| 25 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 have | cc |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | aux |
| 29 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 30 have | advmod |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wished | conj |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 rid | advmod |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 rid | cop |
| 33 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 have | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 rid | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | the King not said here | King's devoted servants | for the sake of one | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | wish | past | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect | King | the Tailor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have | would | gladly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | participle | now | of King; rid property | tree rules |
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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