Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 63
The King felt as if a stone had been removed from his heart, and he caused it to be proclaimed everywhere throughout his dominions that his Son might return and would again be taken into favor.
Who acts: King, Son · What happens: feel, remove, cause, proclaim, return, take · To what, where: stone, heart, dominions, favor
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, Son), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 removed | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 removed | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 removed | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 removed | aux:pass |
| 10 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 removed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caused | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caused | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caused | nsubj |
| 17 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caused | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 proclaimed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 21 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 caused | advcl |
| 22 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 proclaimed | advmod |
| 23 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 25 dominions | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 proclaimed | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 return | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 return | nsubj |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 return | aux |
| 30 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 dominions | acl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 taken | cc |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 taken | aux |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 taken | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 taken | aux:pass |
| 35 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 proclaimed | conj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 favor | case |
| 37 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 taken | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the King | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | remove | past · perfect · passive | a stone | King's heart | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from heart=Source | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | King | heart | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | proclaim | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | throughout King's dominions | everywhere property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» | |||
| 5 | return | might | King's Son | King's dominions not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dominion=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | would · passive | King not said here | favor | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into favor=Destination |
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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