Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 40

Then he went to the king, and asked for a ship for himself and his brothers; and they sailed together over the sea, till they came to the right place.

Who acts: king, brothers · What happens: go, ask, sail, come · To what, where: sea, right place

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, brothers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 ship	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ship	det
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 ship	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brothers	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brothers	nmod:poss
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 himself	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sailed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sailed	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sailed	nsubj
21	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 sailed	advmod
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 sea	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sailed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sailed	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 place	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 place	det
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 place	amod
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	king		then	to the king	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	king not said here			for a ship for king	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sail	past	brothers = brother	the sea		together property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over sea=Trajectory
4	come	past	brothers = brother	the right place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location

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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