Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 47
But the prince gave the king of the land the bread, and all his kingdom ate of it.
Who acts: prince, kingdom · What happens: give, eat · To what, where: bread, king
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 (prince, kingdom), 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 | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bread | det |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ate | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ate | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 kingdom | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ate | nsubj |
| 17 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ate | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the prince | the bread | the king of the land | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient bread=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | past | prince's kingdom | of bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |
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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