Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 21
The servant could now easily prove his innocence; and the king, to make amends for the wrong, allowed him to ask a favour, and promised him the best place in the court that he could wish for.
Who acts: servant, king · What happens: prove, make, allow, ask, promise, wish · To what, where: innocence, amends, king, favour, best place, court · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (servant, 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 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prove | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 prove | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 prove | advmod |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 prove | advmod |
| 6 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 8 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prove | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 prove | conj |
| 16 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 wrong | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wrong | det |
| 19 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 allowed | punct |
| 21 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prove | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 allowed | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 allowed | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 favour | det |
| 26 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ask | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 promised | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 promised | cc |
| 29 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prove | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 promised | iobj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 place | det |
| 32 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 place | amod |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 promised | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 court | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 court | det |
| 36 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 place | nmod |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 wish | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 wish | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 wish | aux |
| 40 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 promised | ccomp |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 wish | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | could | the servant | king's innocence | now | easily property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocence=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the king | amends | for the wrong | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent amend=Product for wrong=Asset | |||
| 3 | allow | past | the servant not said here | king | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | the servant not said here | a favour | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past | the servant not said here | the best place | king | the court | tree rules | ||
| 6 | wish | could | king | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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