Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 14

When the soldier heard all this good counsel, he determined to try his luck: so he went to the king, and said he was willing to undertake the task.

Who acts: soldier, king · What happens: hear, determine, try, go, say, be · To what, where: good counsel, luck, task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 determined	advcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 counsel	det:predet
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 counsel	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 counsel	amod
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 determined	nsubj
11	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 try	mark
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 determined	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 luck	nmod:poss
15	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 try	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 determined	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 king	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 willing	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 willing	cop
28	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 said	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 undertake	mark
30	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 willing	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 task	det
32	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 undertake	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the soldier	all good counsel		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus
2	determine	past	king			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	to-infinitive	king not said here	king's luck		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality
4	go	past	king		to the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	king not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	king		willing property	tree rules
7	undertake	to-infinitive	king not said here	the task		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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