Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 2
The king said to him: ‘You may return to your home, I need you no longer, and you will not receive any more money, for he only receives wages who renders me service for them.’
Who acts: king, You, I, wages · What happens: say, return, need, not receive, receive, render · To what, where: soldier, you, more money, wages, service, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. 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, I, wages), 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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 return | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 return | aux |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 home | nmod:poss |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 need | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 need | nsubj |
| 16 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 return | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 need | obj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 need | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 receive | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 receive | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 receive | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 receive | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 receive | advmod |
| 25 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 return | conj |
| 26 | any | any | ADV | _ | 27 more | advmod |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 money | amod |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 receive | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 receives | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 receives | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 receives | nsubj |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 receives | advmod |
| 33 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 receive | advcl |
| 34 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 receives | obj |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 renders | nsubj |
| 36 | renders | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wages | acl:relcl |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 renders | obj |
| 38 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 renders | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 service | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | soldier | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return | may | You | to your home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 3 | need | present | I | you | long property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||
| 4 | not receive | future | you | more money | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 5 | receive | present | king | wages | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wage=Theme | ||||
| 6 | render | present | wages | service | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient service=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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