Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 48

Whilst he was sitting there, he thought of his dearest mother, and wished that one of the king’s principal servants would begin to speak of her, and would ask how it was faring with the queen in the tower, and if she were alive still, or had perished.

Who acts: king, principal servants, majesty, mother · What happens: sit, think, wish, begin, speak, ask · To what, where: tower · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, principal servants, majesty, mother), 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	4 sitting	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 thought	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sitting	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 mother	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
11	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 mother	amod
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wished	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wished	cc
15	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 begin	mark
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 king	nummod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 servants	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 king	case
22	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 servants	amod
23	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 begin	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 begin	aux
25	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wished	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 speak	mark
27	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begin	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 speak	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ask	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ask	cc
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 ask	aux
33	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begin	conj
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 faring	advmod
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 faring	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 faring	aux
37	faring	fare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 ask	advcl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 queen	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 queen	det
40	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 faring	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 tower	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 tower	det
43	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 faring	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 alive	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 alive	cc
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 alive	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 alive	nsubj
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 alive	cop
49	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wished	parataxis
50	still	still	ADV	_	49 alive	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 perished	punct
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 perished	cc
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 perished	aux
54	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 wished	parataxis
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	king	there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	king			of king's dearest mother	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wish	past	king not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	begin	would	the one king's principal servants				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the one king's principal servants not said here			of mother	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	ask speech: ask	would	the one king's principal servants not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fare	past · progressive	majesty	the tower		with the queen	tree rules
8	is a condition, not said to happen	past	mother		still	alive property	tree rules
9	perish	past · perfect					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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