Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 76
He dared not, however dismiss him, because he feared the Tailor might kill him and all his subjects, and seat himself upon the throne.
Who acts: King, Tailor · What happens: not dare, dismiss, fear, kill · To what, where: seat, King · 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, Tailor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dared | nsubj |
| 2 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 dared | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dismiss | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 dismiss | advmod |
| 6 | dismiss | dismiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dared | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dismiss | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 feared | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dared | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tailor | det |
| 13 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 feared | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 subjects | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 subjects | det:predet |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 20 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 him | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seat | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seat | cc |
| 23 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dared | obl |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 seat | nmod |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 throne | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 throne | det |
| 27 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seat | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past | King | seat King upon the throne | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dismiss | infinitive | King not said here | King | however property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | fear | past | King | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | kill | might | the Tailor | King | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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