Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 73
When he was led forth to die, he begged a last favour of the king.
Who acts: judge · What happens: lead, die, beg, favour · To what, where: judge, last favour, king
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 (judge), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux:pass |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 begged | advcl |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 led | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 begged | nsubj |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 favour | det |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 favour | amod |
| 13 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 favour | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | judge | forth property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | judge not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | judge | a last favour of the king | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | favour | the king | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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