Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 61

At this arrival the old King said to himself, "Perhaps, after all, my Son was guiltless," and he lamented to his courtiers that he had let his Son be killed.

Who acts: old King, Son, King · What happens: say, be, lament, let, kill · To what, where: King, arrival · Speech: someone speaks here

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	At	at	ADP	_	3 arrival	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 arrival	det
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 King	amod
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 guiltless	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 guiltless	punct
12	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	20 guiltless	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Perhaps	punct
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 Son	det
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 all	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Son	nmod:poss
18	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 guiltless	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 guiltless	cop
20	guiltless	guiltless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 guiltless	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 guiltless	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lamented	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lamented	nsubj
25	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 courtiers	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 courtiers	nmod:poss
28	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lamented	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 let	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 let	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 let	aux
32	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 lamented	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Son	nmod:poss
34	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 let	obj
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 killed	aux:pass
36	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 let	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old King		King	this arrival		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	is in a quote	past	my Son				guiltless, perhaps property	tree rules
3	lament	past	King				to King's courtiers	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	let	past · perfect · passive		King				tree rules
5	kill	infinitive · passive	King not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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