Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 77

She told the King the fraud which the witch and her daughter had practised upon him, and he had them both tried, and sentence was pronounced against them.

Who acts: wife, King, lives · What happens: tell, practise, have, try, pronounce · To what, where: fraud, King, witch, sentence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, King, lives), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fraud	det
6	fraud	fraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 practised	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 practised	nsubj:pass
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 daughter	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 witch	conj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 practised	aux
14	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fraud	acl:relcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 practised	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tried	nsubj
22	both	both	ADV	_	23 tried	advmod
23	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pronounced	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pronounced	cc
26	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pronounced	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pronounced	aux:pass
28	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	conj
29	against	against	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pronounced	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	wife	the fraud	the King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient fraud=Topic
2	practise	past · perfect · passive		the witch and wife's daughter		upon King	tree rules
3	have	past	King				tree rules
4	try	past	lives = life			both property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	pronounce	past · passive		sentence		against lives = life	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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