Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 8
The same thing happened the second and third night: so the king ordered his head to be cut off.
Who acts: same thing, king, head · What happens: happen, order, cut off · To what, where: head
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 (same thing, king, head), 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 | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 night | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 third | cc |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 second | conj |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 ordered | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | nsubj |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 cut | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cut | aux:pass |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 cut | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the king | king's head | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent head=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cut off not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | king's head not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
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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