Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 124

The king still would not give him the promised reward, and made a third demand.

Who acts: king · What happens: not give, promise, make · To what, where: promised reward, tailor, third demand

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 (king), 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	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
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	6 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 demand	det
15	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 demand	amod
16	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not give	would	the king	the promised reward	tailor	still	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reward=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	the king not said here	a third demand			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset demand=Product

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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