Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 48
And he lent the king the wonderful sword, and he slew the enemy’s army with it; and thus the kingdom was once more in peace and plenty.
Who acts: prince, kingdom · What happens: lend, slay, be · To what, where: wonderful sword, king, army, peace
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lent | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lent | nsubj |
| 3 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lent | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sword | amod |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lent | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slew | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slew | nsubj |
| 12 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lent | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 enemy | det |
| 14 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 army | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 enemy | case |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slew | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slew | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 peace | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 peace | cc |
| 21 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 peace | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 peace | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 peace | cop |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 peace | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 peace | case |
| 28 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lent | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 plenty | cc |
| 30 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 peace | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | past | prince | the wonderful sword | the king | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | slay | past | prince | the enemy's army | with enemy | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent army=Patient with it=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is | past | the kingdom | peace and plenty | thus property | tree rules |
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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