Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 74

When the King heard this he would have punished the false Brothers, but they had prudently taken themselves off in a ship, and they never returned home afterward.

Who acts: King, dominions · What happens: hear, punish, take off, not return · To what, where: this, King, dominions, ship · 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 (King, dominions), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 punished	nsubj:pass
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 punished	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 punished	aux
9	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Brothers	det
11	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Brothers	amod
12	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 punished	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 taken	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
17	prudently	prudently	ADV	_	18 taken	advmod
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 heard	conj
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 taken	obj
20	off	off	ADP	_	18 taken	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ship	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 returned	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 returned	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 returned	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 returned	advmod
28	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 returned	advmod
30	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	28 returned	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the King	this			tree rules
2	punish	would · perfect · passive		King			tree rules
3	take off	past · perfect	dominions = dominion	dominions = dominion	a ship	prudently property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
4	not return	past	dominions = dominion			afterward, home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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