Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 84

He sent to the little tailor and caused him to be informed that as he was a great warrior, he had one request to make to him.

Who acts: king · What happens: send, cause, inform, be, have, make · To what, where: little tailor, king, great warrior, one request

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 tailor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tailor	amod
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 caused	cc
8	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 caused	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 informed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 informed	aux:pass
12	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 caused	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 warrior	mark
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 warrior	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 warrior	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 warrior	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 warrior	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 warrior	amod
19	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 informed	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 request	nummod
24	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	send	past	king		the little tailor	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tailor=Destination
2	cause	past	king not said here		king	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Patient
3	inform speech: other	to-infinitive · passive	king not said here			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»
4	is a	past	king	a great warrior		tree rules
5	have	past	king	one request		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Patient
6	make	to-infinitive	king not said here		king	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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