Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 15
He was as well received as the others had been, and the king ordered fine royal robes to be given him; and when the evening came he was led to the outer chamber.
Who acts: others, king, evening · What happens: receive, be, order, give, come, lead · To what, where: king, fine royal robes, outer chamber
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 (others, king, evening), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 received | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 received | cc |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 as | fixed |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 been | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 been | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 been | aux |
| 10 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 received | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ordered | nsubj |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | parataxis |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robes | amod |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robes | amod |
| 18 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ordered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 given | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 given | aux:pass |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ordered | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | iobj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 came | cc |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 came | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 evening | det |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | parataxis |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 led | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 led | aux:pass |
| 31 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 came | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 chamber | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 chamber | det |
| 34 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 chamber | amod |
| 35 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 led | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past · perfect | the others | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order | past | the king | fine royal robes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lead | past · passive | king | the outer chamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to chamber=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: «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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