Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 50
The old King, nevertheless, was very angry with his youngest Son, who had conspired, as he believed, against his life.
Who acts: old King, Son, King · What happens: be, conspire, believe · To what, where: life
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 (old King, Son, 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 | 3 King | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nevertheless | punct |
| 5 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 3 King | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 angry | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 angry | advmod |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 youngest | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 youngest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 angry | obl |
| 13 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 youngest | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 conspired | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 conspired | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 conspired | aux |
| 17 | conspired | conspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Son | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 believed | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 believed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 believed | nsubj |
| 21 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 conspired | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 life | punct |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 life | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 believed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old King | with King's youngest; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conspire | past · perfect | Son | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | believe | past | King | King's life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
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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