Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 76
Then he went to the king, and told him all his brothers’ roguery; and they were seized and punished, and he had the princess given to him again; and after the king’s death he was heir to his kingdom.
Who acts: horse, king · What happens: go, tell, seize, punish, have, give · To what, where: roguery, horse, bones, princess, heir · 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 (horse, 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 brothers | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 roguery | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 brothers | case |
| 15 | roguery | roguery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 seized | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seized | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seized | aux:pass |
| 20 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 told | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 punished | cc |
| 22 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 seized | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 princess | acl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 given | obl |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 given | advmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 heir | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 heir | cc |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 death | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 death | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 king | case |
| 39 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heir | obl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 heir | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 heir | cop |
| 42 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 kingdom | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 45 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heir | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | horse | then | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | horse not said here | horse's brothers's roguery | horse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient roguery=Topic | |||
| 3 | seize | past · passive | bones = bone | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | punish | participle | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | have | past | horse | the princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 6 | give | participle | the princess not said here | horse | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 7 | is a | past | horse | heir | after the king's death | to horse's kingdom | tree rules | ||
| 8 | die | the king | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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