Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 15

The King went, however, so often to see his dear children, that the Queen, noticing his absence, became inquisitive, and wished to know what he went to fetch out of the forest.

Who acts: King · What happens: go, see, notice, become, wish, know · To what, where: dear children, absence, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	10 see	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
12	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 see	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Queen	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 Queen	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Queen	det
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 see	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 noticing	punct
19	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 see	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 absence	nmod:poss
21	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 noticing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 became	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wished	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wished	cc
27	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 know	mark
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wished	xcomp
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 went	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 know	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 fetch	mark
34	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 went	xcomp
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 forest	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fetch	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the King				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the King not said here	King's dear children		the Queen obl; however, often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
3	notice	gerund	the King not said here	King's absence			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus
4	become	past	the King not said here			inquisitive property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	wish	past	the King not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	go	past	King				tree rules
8	fetch	to-infinitive	King not said here		the forest		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	absent		King				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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