Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 51
He caused his court to be assembled, and sentence was given to the effect that the Prince should be secretly shot; and once as he rode out hunting, unsuspicious of any evil, the Huntsman was sent with him to perform the deed.
Who acts: King, effect · What happens: cause, assemble, give, shoot, ride out, send · To what, where: court, sentence, effect, Prince, hunting, Huntsman
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 (King, effect), 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 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 court | nmod:poss |
| 4 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caused | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 assembled | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 assembled | aux:pass |
| 7 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 caused | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 given | cc |
| 10 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 assembled | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 effect | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 effect | det |
| 15 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 shot | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 shot | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 shot | aux:pass |
| 21 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 22 shot | advmod |
| 22 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 effect | acl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 rode | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rode | cc |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 28 rode | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 rode | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 rode | nsubj |
| 28 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caused | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 rode | compound:prt |
| 30 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rode | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 unsuspicious | punct |
| 32 | unsuspicious | unsuspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hunting | amod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 evil | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 evil | det |
| 35 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 unsuspicious | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sent | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Huntsman | det |
| 38 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 sent | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 sent | aux:pass |
| 40 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 rode | parataxis |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sent | obl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 perform | mark |
| 44 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 sent | advcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 deed | det |
| 46 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 perform | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | King | King's court | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition court=Patient | ||||
| 2 | assemble | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | sentence | the effect | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to effect=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | shoot | should · passive | the effect not said here | the Prince | secretly property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | ride out | past | King | hunting | once property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Theme | |||
| 6 | send | past · passive | the Huntsman | with King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | perform | to-infinitive | the deed | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=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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