Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 20

And as he sat there, the king of the ants (whose life he had saved) came to help him, with five thousand ants; and it was not long before they had found all the pearls and laid them in a heap.

Who acts: turn, king, job, kings · What happens: sit, save, come, help, not be, find · To what, where: life, turn, pearls, heap

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, king, job, kings), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 sat	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ants	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ants	det
11	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 king	nmod
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 life	punct
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ants	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saved	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saved	aux
17	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 life	acl:relcl
18	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 saved	punct
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	21 help	mark
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 came	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 help	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ants	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 ants	case
25	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 thousand	compound
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 ants	nummod
27	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 help	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 long	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 long	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 long	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 long	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 came	advmod
34	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 found	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 found	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 found	aux
37	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 long	advcl
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 pearls	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pearls	det
40	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 found	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 laid	cc
42	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 found	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 laid	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 heap	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 heap	det
46	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 laid	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	turn			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	save	past · perfect	turn	the ants and the ants and life's life's life not said here				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	come	past	the king of the ants and the ants and life's life					tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive	the king of the ants and the ants and life's life not said here		turn		with thousand ants	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with ant=Theme
5	not is	past	job				long property	tree rules
6	find	past · perfect	kings = king	all pearls				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Topic
7	lay	past	kings = king not said here	pearls = pearl		a heap		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in heap=Destination

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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