Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 60

The old king was still very angry with his youngest son, and thought that he really meant to have taken away his life; so he called his court together, and asked what should be done, and all agreed that he ought to be put to death.

Who acts: old king, king, Life · What happens: be, think, mean, take away, call, ask · To what, where: life, court · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old king, king, Life), 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	3 king	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 son	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 son	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 angry	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 meant	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meant	nsubj
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 meant	advmod
18	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	21 taken	mark
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 taken	aux
21	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 meant	ccomp
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 taken	advmod
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taken	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 called	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 called	nsubj
28	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	parataxis
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 court	nmod:poss
30	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	obj
31	together	together	ADV	_	28 called	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 asked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 asked	cc
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 called	conj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 done	obj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 done	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 done	aux:pass
38	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 asked	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 agreed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 agreed	cc
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 agreed	advmod
42	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 put	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 put	nsubj
45	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 put	aux
46	to	to	PART	_	48 put	mark
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 put	aux:pass
48	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 agreed	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 death	case
50	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 put	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old king		still	with king's youngest son; angry property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the old king not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	mean	past	king				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect		king's life		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5	call	past	Life	Life's court		together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent court=Recipient
6	ask speech: ask	past	Life not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	do	should · passive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
8	agree speech: agree	past					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	put	ought · passive		Life		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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