Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 12
The king then took pity on him, and said, ‘You shall be poor no longer.
Who acts: king, You · What happens: take, say, be · To what, where: pity · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, You), 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 | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 poor | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 poor | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 poor | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 poor | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 poor | cop |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 poor | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king | pity | then | on gardener | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on he=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | shall | You | long, poor property | tree rules |
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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