Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 113

The little tailor demanded of the king the promised reward; he, however, repented of his promise, and again bethought himself how he could get rid of the hero.

Who acts: little tailor, promise, tailor · What happens: demand, promise, repent, bethink, get · To what, where: promised reward, tailor

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little tailor, promise, tailor), 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 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	demanded	demand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tailor	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demanded	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reward	det
9	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 reward	amod
10	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demanded	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 repented	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 repented	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 he	punct
14	however	however	ADV	_	16 repented	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 however	punct
16	repented	repent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tailor	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 promise	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 promise	nmod:poss
19	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 repented	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bethought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bethought	cc
22	again	again	ADV	_	23 bethought	advmod
23	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 promise	acl:relcl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 bethought	obj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 get	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 get	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bethought	advcl
29	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 get	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 hero	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hero	det
32	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tailor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	participle	the little tailor not said here	the promised reward		of the king	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	repent	participle · passive		tailor		of tailor's promise; however property	tree rules
4	bethink	past	tailor's promise not said here	tailor	again		tree rules
5	get	could	tailor			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	promise		tailor				nom promise «communication transitive»: 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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