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Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 80

The king was terrified; he threw himself on the soldier’s mercy, and merely to be allowed to live at all, gave him his kingdom for his own, and his daughter to wife.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, throw, allow, live, give · To what, where: king, mercy, all, kingdom

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), 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

detnsubjcoppunctnsubjconjobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccadvmodmarkaux:passconjmarkxcompcaseoblpunctconjiobjnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccnmod:possconjmarkaclpunctrootTheDETkingNOUNwasAUXterrifiedADJ;PUNCThePRONthrewVERBhimselfPRONonADPtheDETsoldierNOUN’sPARTmercyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmerelyADVtoPARTbeAUXallowedVERBtoPARTliveVERBatADPallDET,PUNCTgaveVERBhimPRONhisPRONkingdomNOUNforADPhisPRONownADJ,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONdaughterNOUNtoPARTwifeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing4 terrifiednsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 terrifiedcop
4terrifiedterrifiedADJDegree=Posrootroot
5;;PUNCT_7 threwpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 threwnsubj
7threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 terrifiedconj
8himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes7 threwobj
9ononADP_13 mercycase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 soldierdet
11soldiersoldierNOUNNumber=Sing13 mercynmod:poss
12’s'sPART_11 soldiercase
13mercymercyNOUNNumber=Sing7 threwobl
14,,PUNCT_19 allowedpunct
15andandCCONJ_19 allowedcc
16merelymerelyADV_19 allowedadvmod
17totoPART_19 allowedmark
18bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf19 allowedaux:pass
19allowedallowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 terrifiedconj
20totoPART_21 livemark
21liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf19 allowedxcomp
22atatADP_23 allcase
23allallDETPronType=Tot21 liveobl
24,,PUNCT_25 gavepunct
25gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 terrifiedconj
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 gaveiobj
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 kingdomnmod:poss
28kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing25 gaveobj
29forforADP_31 owncase
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 ownnmod:poss
31ownownADJDegree=Pos25 gaveobl
32,,PUNCT_35 daughterpunct
33andandCCONJ_35 daughtercc
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 daughternmod:poss
35daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing4 terrifiedconj
36totoPART_37 wifemark
37wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing35 daughteracl
38..PUNCT_4 terrifiedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe kingterrified propertytree rules
2throwpastkingkingthe soldier's mercyvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on mercy=Destination
3allowto-infinitive · passivethe king not said heremerely propertyvn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
4live not said to happento-infinitivethe king not said hereallvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
5givepastthe king not said hereking's kingdomkingfor king's ownvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kingdom=Theme for own=Asset

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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