Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 53

Then the king put in a word, and said, ‘Each of you is right; and as all cannot have the young lady, the best way is for neither of you to have her: for the truth is, there is somebody she likes a great deal better.

Who acts: king, Each, somebody, princess · What happens: put, say, be, not have, have, like · To what, where: word, young lady, princess, great deal · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Each, somebody, princess), 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	4 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
13	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 right	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 Each	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 have	obl
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lady	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lady	amod
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 way	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 way	amod
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	parataxis
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 neither	cop
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 neither	case
34	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	31 way	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 neither	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 have	mark
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 way	acl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 have	obj
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 is	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 truth	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 truth	det
43	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 is	obl
44	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 is	punct
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 is	expl
47	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 is	ccomp
48	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 is	nsubj
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 likes	nsubj
50	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 somebody	acl:relcl
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 deal	det
52	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 deal	amod
53	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 likes	obj
54	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 deal	amod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	participle	the king		a word	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in word=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	present	Each				right property	tree rules
4	not have	can		the young lady			as all	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
5	have	to-infinitive		princess				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	be	present	the king not said here				for the truth	tree rules
7	be	present	somebody		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	like	present	princess	a great deal				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme

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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