Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 48
And then he told the king all that had happened, and showed him the three branches and the golden cup which he had brought with him.
Who acts: thing, that · What happens: tell, happen, show, bring · To what, where: king, three branches, thing, golden cup · 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 (thing, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 happened | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 showed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 showed | cc |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 branches | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 branches | nummod |
| 17 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 showed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cup | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cup | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cup | amod |
| 21 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 branches | conj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cup | acl:relcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brought | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | thing | the king | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | past | thing not said here | the three branches and the golden cup | thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient branch=Topic | |||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the golden cup | with thing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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: «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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