Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 44
Meanwhile the King showed the Princess all the golden treasures--the dishes, cups, bowls, the birds, the wild and wonderful beasts.
Who acts: King · What happens: show · To what, where: Princess
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 showed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 treasures | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 treasures | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 treasures | amod |
| 10 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 showed | ccomp |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 dishes | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dishes | det |
| 13 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 treasures | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cups | punct |
| 15 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dishes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bowls | punct |
| 17 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dishes | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 birds | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 birds | det |
| 20 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 treasures | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wild | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wild | det |
| 23 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 treasures | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beasts | cc |
| 25 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 beasts | amod |
| 26 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wild | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the King | the Princess | meanwhile property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient |
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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