Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 39

Then the huntsman promised to procure as much game for him as he could possibly use at the royal table.

Who acts: huntsman · What happens: promise, procure, use · To what, where: much game, royal table

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 (huntsman), 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	4 promised	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 huntsman	det
3	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 procure	mark
6	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 game	amod
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 procure	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 procure	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 use	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 use	aux
15	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	16 use	advmod
16	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 procure	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 table	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 table	det
19	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 table	amod
20	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 use	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the huntsman			then		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	procure not said to happen	to-infinitive	the huntsman not said here	much game			for huntsman	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent game=Theme for he=Beneficiary
3	use	could	huntsman		the royal table		possibly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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