Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 71

They went and announced him to the king, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart.

Who acts: people, war, this · What happens: go, announce, give, break out, be, allow · To what, where: tailor, king, warrior, weighty man

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 (people, war, this), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 announced	cc
4	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 announced	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 announced	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	obj
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 opinion	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 opinion	nmod:poss
15	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 break	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 break	mark
18	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 break	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 break	aux
20	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gave	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 break	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 man	punct
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 man	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 man	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 man	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
27	weighty	weighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 useful	cc
29	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 weighty	conj
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 break	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 account	nsubj
32	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 account	aux
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 account	case
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 account	det
35	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 allowed	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 allowed	aux:pass
38	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 account	acl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 depart	mark
40	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 allowed	xcomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	people				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	announce speech: other	past	people not said here	tailor	the king		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to king=Recipient
3	give	past	people not said here	warrior		as people's opinion	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	break out a condition, not said to happen	should	war				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	would	this	a weighty man and no account			tree rules
6	allow	to-infinitive · passive	this not said here				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
7	depart not said to happen	to-infinitive	this not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	opine		people				nom opinion «cognition 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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