Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 68

Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king’s court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people.

Who acts: three grand embassies, king · What happens: come, send, lend, rid, feed, gift · To what, where: court, these, sword, people, gold

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 (three grand embassies, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 time	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 embassies	nummod
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 embassies	amod
7	embassies	embassy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 court	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	amod
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 court	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gifts	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 gifts	case
17	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gifts	amod
18	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 gold	case
20	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gifts	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stones	cc
22	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stones	amod
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gifts	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 son	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 son	nmod:poss
26	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 son	amod
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gifts	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 sent	punct
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sent	advmod
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 sent	det:predet
31	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 sent	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sent	aux:pass
33	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 came	parataxis
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 kings	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 kings	det
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 kings	nummod
37	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sent	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 whom	case
39	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 kings	nmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 lent	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 lent	aux
42	lent	lend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 whom	acl:relcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 sword	nmod:poss
44	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lent	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 loaf	cc
46	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sword	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 bread	case
48	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 loaf	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 rid	punct
50	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	53 rid	mark
51	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 in	fixed
52	to	to	PART	_	53 rid	mark
53	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sent	advcl
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 rid	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 enemy	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 enemy	nmod:poss
57	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 rid	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 feed	cc
59	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 rid	conj
60	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 people	nmod:poss
61	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 feed	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	three grand embassies			the old king's court	time	with rich gifts of gold for king's youngest son and precious stones	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location
2	send	past · passive		these			now	from the three kings	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from king=Initial_Location
3	lend	past · perfect	king	king's sword and loaf of bread					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
4	rid	to-infinitive		sword				of embassies's enemy	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Source of enemy=Theme
5	feed	present			embassies's people				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
6	gift			gold				for king's youngest son	nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient for=obl

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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