Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 72
The counsel pleased the king, and he sent one of his courtiers to the little tailor to offer him military service when he awoke.
Who acts: counsel, tailor · What happens: send, offer, awake · To what, where: one, little tailor, military service, 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 (counsel, 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 | 2 counsel | det |
| 2 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nsubj |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sent | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 courtiers | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 tailor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tailor | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tailor | amod |
| 17 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 offer | mark |
| 19 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 offer | obj |
| 21 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 service | amod |
| 22 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offer | obj |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 awoke | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 awoke | nsubj |
| 25 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 offer | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | counsel | one of king's courtiers | the little tailor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to tailor=Destination | |||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | counsel not said here | military service | tailor | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal service=Theme | |||
| 3 | awake | past | tailor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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