Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 121
When the king came and saw this, he was greatly astonished and pleased; but his heart grew still more greedy of gain, and he shut up the poor miller’s daughter again with a fresh task.
Who acts: king, heart · What happens: come, see, be, grow, shut up · To what, where: this, daughter
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, heart), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 astonished | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | cop |
| 11 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 12 astonished | advmod |
| 12 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pleased | cc |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 astonished | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 grew | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 grew | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | conj |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 greedy | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 greedy | advmod |
| 22 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grew | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gain | case |
| 24 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 greedy | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shut | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shut | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 shut | nsubj |
| 28 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 grew | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 shut | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 miller | det |
| 31 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 miller | amod |
| 32 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 miller | case |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shut | obj |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 shut | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 task | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 task | det |
| 38 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 task | amod |
| 39 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shut | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the king not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king | astonished, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | grow | past | king's heart | greedy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | shut up | past | king | the poor miller's daughter | again | with a fresh task | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient with task=Instrument |
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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