Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 3

Then the king made it known to all the land, that if any person could discover the secret, and find out where it was that the princesses danced in the night, he should have the one he liked best for his wife, and should be king after his death; but whoever tried and did not succeed, after three days and nights, should be put to death.

Who acts: king, room, person, whoever · What happens: make, know, discover, find out, be, have · To what, where: room, secret, one, best, king

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 (king, room, person, whoever), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 land	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 land	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 known	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 discover	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 discover	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 discover	mark
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 discover	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 discover	aux
17	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 secret	det
19	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 discover	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 find	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 find	cc
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 discover	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 find	compound:prt
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 danced	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 danced	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 danced	cop
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 danced	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 princesses	det
29	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 danced	nsubj
30	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 have	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 night	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 night	det
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 danced	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 danced	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 have	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 have	aux
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 find	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 one	det
39	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 liked	nsubj
41	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 one	acl:relcl
42	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 liked	obj
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 wife	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wife	nmod:poss
45	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 best	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 king	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 king	cc
48	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 king	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 king	cop
50	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
51	after	after	ADP	_	53 death	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 death	nmod:poss
53	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 king	nmod
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 tried	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 tried	cc
56	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 tried	nsubj
57	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 succeed	cc
59	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 succeed	aux
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 succeed	advmod
61	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 tried	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 days	punct
63	after	after	ADP	_	65 days	case
64	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	65 days	nummod
65	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 succeed	obl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 nights	cc
67	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 days	conj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 put	punct
69	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 put	aux
70	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	71 put	aux:pass
71	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
72	to	to	ADP	_	73 death	case
73	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 put	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the king	room	then		tree rules
2	know	participle	room not said here			to all land	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	discover a condition, not said to happen	could	any person	the secret			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic
4	find out	infinitive					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	person		night	dance property	tree rules
6	have	should	king	the one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
7	like	past	king	best			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme
8	is a	should		king	after king's death		tree rules
9	try	past	whoever				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	not succeed	past · do-support	whoever not said here		day		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	put	should · passive	the king not said here			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
12	die		king				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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