Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 73

Thereupon he rode to the old King's palace, and told him how his Brothers had betrayed him while he slept, and had sworn him to silence.

Who acts: Prince, Brothers · What happens: ride, tell, betray, sleep, swear · To what, where: old palace, Prince · 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 (Prince, Brothers), 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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 palace	amod
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 palace	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 betrayed	advmod
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Brothers	nmod:poss
16	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 betrayed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 betrayed	aux
18	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 betrayed	obj
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 slept	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 slept	nsubj
22	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 betrayed	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sworn	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sworn	cc
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sworn	aux
26	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 rode	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sworn	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 silence	mark
29	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sworn	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Prince			King's old palace	thereupon property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory
2	tell speech: assert	past	Prince not said here		Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	betray	past · perfect	Prince's Brothers	Prince				tree rules
4	sleep	past	Prince					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	swear	past · perfect	Prince not said here	Prince				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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