Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 79
They came therefore to a decision, betook themselves in a body to the king, and begged for their dismissal.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: come, betake, beg, dismiss · To what, where: decision, soldiers, body
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 (soldiers), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 decision | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 decision | det |
| 6 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 betook | punct |
| 8 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 betook | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 betook | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 betook | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 begged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 begged | cc |
| 18 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 betook | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 dismissal | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dismissal | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dismissal | dismissal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begged | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | soldiers = soldier | a decision | therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to decision=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | betake | past | soldiers = soldier | a body | to the king | tree rules | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | participle | for soldiers's dismissal | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for dismissal=Topic | |||||
| 4 | dismiss | soldiers = soldier | nom dismissal «act 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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