Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 131

The hero, however, went to the king, who was now, whether he liked it or not, obliged to keep his promise, and gave his daughter and the half of his kingdom.

Who acts: hero, king · What happens: go, be, like, not oblige, keep, give · To what, where: prisoner, promise, daughter

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 (hero, 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 hero	det
2	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hero	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 now	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 now	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 now	cop
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 king	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 liked	punct
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 liked	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 liked	nsubj
17	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 liked	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 obliged	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 obliged	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 obliged	punct
22	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 liked	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 obliged	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 promise	nmod:poss
26	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keep	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 half	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 half	det
34	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 daughter	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 kingdom	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 kingdom	nmod:poss
37	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 half	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the hero		to the king; however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the king		now property	tree rules
3	like	past	hero	prisoner		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	not oblige	participle	hero not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	keep	to-infinitive	hero not said here	hero's promise		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
6	give	past	the hero not said here	hero's daughter and the half of hero's kingdom		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
7	promise		hero			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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