Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 25
The King was much grieved, but he did not think that his wife could have done this wicked deed, and, as he feared the girl might also be stolen away, he took her with him.
Who acts: King, wife · What happens: grieve, not think, do, fear, steal away, take · To what, where: King, wicked deed, girl · 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, wife), 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 | 5 grieved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grieved | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 grieved | advmod |
| 5 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 think | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grieved | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 think | ccomp |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 deed | det |
| 19 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deed | amod |
| 20 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 took | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 took | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 and | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 feared | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 feared | nsubj |
| 26 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 took | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 girl | det |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 stolen | aux |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 32 stolen | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 stolen | aux:pass |
| 32 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 feared | ccomp |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 stolen | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 feared | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 took | nsubj |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grieved | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 took | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 took | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past · passive | the King | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | King | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | could · perfect | King's wife | this wicked deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | fear | past | King | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | steal away | might · passive | the girl | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | past | King | girl | with horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=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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