Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 17
The king was at first very unwilling to let him go, but at last yielded to his wish.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, let, go, yield, wish · To what, where: king, last
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. 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
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 | 7 unwilling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 unwilling | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 first | case |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 unwilling | obl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 unwilling | advmod |
| 7 | unwilling | unwilling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unwilling | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yielded | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 yielded | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 yielded | obl |
| 16 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 unwilling | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 wish | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wish | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yielded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unwilling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | unwilling property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | king not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | yield | participle | the king not said here | last | to king's wish | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wish=Theme | |||
| 5 | wish | king | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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