Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 86
The King looked at him, and because his appearance pleased him, he said, "You may make three requests, but they must be inanimate things you ask for, and such as you can take with you into the castle."
Who acts: King, You, requests · What happens: look, say, make, be, ask, take · To what, where: three requests, inanimate things, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, You, requests), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 pleased | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pleased | nsubj |
| 11 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pleased | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pleased | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 18 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 19 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 make | aux |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 requests | nummod |
| 22 | requests | request | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 things | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 things | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 things | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 things | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 things | cop |
| 28 | inanimate | inanimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 things | amod |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 ask | nsubj |
| 31 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 things | acl:relcl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 ask | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 take | cc |
| 35 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 37 you | case |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 such | fixed |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 take | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 take | aux |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 you | case |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 take | obl |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 castle | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 castle | det |
| 44 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the King | at youth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | may | You | three requests | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Product | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | must | requests = request | inanimate things | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | inanimate things not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | can | you | the castle | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into castle=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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