Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 51
Then the king was obliged to keep his word, and away went the young man and the princess; and the fox came and said to him, ‘We will have all three, the princess, the horse, and the bird.’
Who acts: fox, We, king · What happens: oblige, keep, go, come, say, have · To what, where: king, word, young man, fox, three · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fox, We, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 obliged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obliged | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | aux:pass |
| 5 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obliged | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 princess | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 came | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fox | det |
| 23 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 came | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 31 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | aux |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 three | det |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 princess | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 princess | det |
| 38 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 three | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 horse | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 horse | det |
| 41 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 princess | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 bird | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 bird | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 bird | det |
| 45 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | the king | then | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | king's word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the young man and the princess | away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the fox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the fox not said here | fox | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | have | future | We | all three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient | ||||
| 7 | word | king | nom word «communication 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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