Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 41
To each King the Prince lent his bread and sword, and so saved three kingdoms.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: lend, save · To what, where: bread, King, three kingdoms
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 King | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lent | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lent | nsubj |
| 6 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bread | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lent | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sword | cc |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bread | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saved | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saved | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 saved | advmod |
| 14 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lent | conj |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 kingdoms | nummod |
| 16 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saved | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | past | the Prince | Prince's bread and sword | each King | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bread=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | save | past | the Prince not said here | three kingdoms | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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