Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 12

The king ordered the man to be brought before him, and threatened with angry words that unless he could before the morrow point out the thief, he himself should be looked upon as guilty and executed.

Who acts: king · What happens: order, bring, threaten, point out, look, execute · To what, where: man, angry words, king

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 brought	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 brought	aux:pass
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 man	acl
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threatened	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threatened	cc
13	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ordered	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 words	case
15	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 words	amod
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 threatened	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 point	obj
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	20 could	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 point	aux
21	before	before	ADP	_	23 morrow	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 morrow	det
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 could	obl
24	point	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 words	acl:relcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 point	compound:prt
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thief	det
27	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 point	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 looked	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 looked	nsubj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 looked	nsubj:pass
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 looked	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 looked	aux:pass
33	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ordered	conj
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 guilty	case
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 guilty	case
36	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 looked	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 executed	cc
38	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 guilty	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	the king		the man			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	bring	to-infinitive · passive	the king not said here			before king		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination
3	threaten	participle	the king not said here				with angry words	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	point out	could		angry words				tree rules
5	look	should · passive		king			upon guilty	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
6	execute	participle						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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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