Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 18
The thought occurred to him, however, that the king’s son might some day wish to be with his father, and thus bring him into great peril.
Who acts: thought, son · What happens: occur, wish, be, bring · To what, where: cook, great peril
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, son), 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 thought | det |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occurred | nsubj |
| 3 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 occurred | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 occurred | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 wish | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wish | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 occurred | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 father | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 father | cop |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 father | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wish | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 25 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 26 bring | advmod |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 occurred | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 peril | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 peril | amod |
| 30 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | the thought | cook | however property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | might | the king's son | day | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the king's son not said here | with cook's father | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | the thought not said here | cook | great peril | thus property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into peril=Destination |
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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