Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 44
Full of joy he took it to the king and expected that he would grant him the promised reward.
Who acts: Full joy, joy · What happens: take, expect, grant, promise · To what, where: ring, king, promised reward, youth
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 (Full joy, joy), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 joy | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 expected | cc |
| 11 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 grant | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grant | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 grant | aux |
| 15 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 expected | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grant | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reward | det |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 reward | amod |
| 19 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grant | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Full joy | ring | the king | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | expect | past | Full joy not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grant not said to happen | would | joy | the promised reward | youth | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal reward=Theme | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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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