Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 63
The aged king ordered the cook to be torn in four pieces, but grief consumed the king’s own heart, and he soon died.
Who acts: aged king, grief · What happens: order, tear, consume, die · To what, where: cook, four pieces, own heart
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 (aged king, grief), 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cook | det |
| 6 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 torn | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 torn | aux:pass |
| 9 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ordered | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 pieces | nummod |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 torn | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 consumed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 consumed | cc |
| 15 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consumed | nsubj |
| 16 | consumed | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heart | amod |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consumed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 died | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 died | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 died | nsubj |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 died | advmod |
| 26 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 consumed | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the aged king | the cook | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cook=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tear | to-infinitive · passive | the aged king not said here | four pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: in piece=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | consume | past | grief | the king's own heart | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Asset | ||||
| 4 | die | past | grief | soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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