Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 136
The king comforted her and said: ‘Leave your bedroom door open this night, and my servants shall stand outside, and when he has fallen asleep shall go in, bind him, and take him on board a ship which shall carry him into the wide world.’
Who acts: king, servants, ship · What happens: comfort, say, leave, stand, fall, go in · To what, where: queen, bedroom door, king, ship, wide world · Speech: someone speaks here
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, servants, ship), 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 | 3 comforted | nsubj |
| 3 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comforted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 comforted | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Leave | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Leave | punct |
| 9 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 door | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | compound |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Leave | obj |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Leave | xcomp |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Leave | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stand | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stand | cc |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 servants | nmod:poss |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stand | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 stand | aux |
| 21 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Leave | conj |
| 22 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 21 stand | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fallen | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fallen | cc |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 fallen | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fallen | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 fallen | aux |
| 28 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 go | advcl |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fallen | xcomp |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 Leave | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 go | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bind | punct |
| 34 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Leave | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 bind | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 take | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 take | cc |
| 38 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 comforted | parataxis |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 take | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 ship | case |
| 41 | board | board | ADP | _ | 43 ship | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 ship | det |
| 43 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 take | obl |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 carry | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 carry | aux |
| 46 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 ship | acl:relcl |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 carry | obj |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 world | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 world | det |
| 50 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 world | amod |
| 51 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 carry | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 take | punct |
| 53 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 38 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | the king | queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | your bedroom door | night | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand | shall | my servants | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fall | present · perfect | king | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go in | shall | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | bind | infinitive | king | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 8 | take | infinitive | king | a ship | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 9 | carry | shall | a ship | king | the wide world | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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