Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 56

But unseen by the king, the manikin was standing beside him when he said that, and heard all.

Who acts: manikin, king · What happens: stand, say, hear · To what, where: king, all · 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 (manikin, king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 unseen	cc
2	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 unseen	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 standing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 manikin	det
8	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 standing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 standing	aux
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 king	acl:relcl
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 standing	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 said	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 standing	parataxis
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 heard	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unseen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the manikin	the king not said here	beside king	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme beside he=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past		all		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus

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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