Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 134
The king came in the morning, and, finding all he wanted, was forced to keep his word; so he married the miller’s daughter, and she really became queen.
Who acts: king, daughter · What happens: come, find, want, force, keep, marry · To what, where: all, word, daughter, queen
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, daughter), 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 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finding | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 finding | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finding | punct |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 finding | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wanted | nsubj |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 all | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forced | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forced | aux:pass |
| 16 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wanted | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forced | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 word | nmod:poss |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 married | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 married | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 married | nsubj |
| 24 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 miller | det |
| 26 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 miller | case |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 married | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 became | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 became | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 became | nsubj |
| 32 | really | really | ADV | _ | 33 became | advmod |
| 33 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 34 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 became | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | the king not said here | all | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic | ||||
| 3 | want | past | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | force not said to happen | past · passive | king not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 6 | marry | past | king | the miller's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 7 | become | past | daughter | queen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | 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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