Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 10
But the king hoped to save his dear child from the threatened evil, and ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and destroyed.
Who acts: king · What happens: hope, save, order, buy up, destroy · To what, where: dear child, threatened evil, spindles
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 hoped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoped | nsubj |
| 4 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 save | mark |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hoped | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 child | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 evil | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evil | det |
| 12 | threatened | threatened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 evil | amod |
| 13 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | cc |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hoped | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 bought | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 spindles | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spindles | det |
| 20 | spindles | spindle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spindles | nmod |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bought | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bought | aux:pass |
| 26 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ordered | ccomp |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 bought | compound:prt |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 destroyed | cc |
| 29 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bought | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | the king | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | wish's dear child | the threatened evil | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from evil=Source | |||
| 3 | order | past | the king not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | buy up | should · passive | all spindles in the kingdom | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | destroy | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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