Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 50
But the King, taking her by the hand, said, "I am not a merchant, but a king, thine equal in birth.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, say, not be, be · To what, where: Princess, merchant, birth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taking | punct |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 King | acl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taking | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hand | det |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 merchant | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 merchant | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 merchant | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 merchant | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 merchant | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 merchant | det |
| 18 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 king | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 merchant | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 equal | punct |
| 24 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 equal | nmod:poss |
| 25 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 merchant | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 birth | case |
| 27 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 equal | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the King not said here | Princess | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | the King = king | a merchant but a king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | the King = king not said here | birth | 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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