Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 3
The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree.
Who acts: king · What happens: become, order, keep, watch · To what, where: gardener, tree
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 angry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gardener | det |
| 12 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 keep | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watch | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watch | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the king | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the king not said here | the gardener | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gardener=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | watch | infinitive | the king not said here | the tree | night | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
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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