Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 69

This touched the old king’s heart, and he thought his son might still be guiltless, and said to his court, ‘O that my son were still alive! how it grieves me that I had him killed!’

Who acts: This, king, son, court · What happens: touch, think, be, say, grieve, kill · To what, where: heart, me · 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 (This, king, son, court), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heart	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 guiltless	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 guiltless	aux
15	still	still	ADV	_	17 guiltless	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 guiltless	cop
17	guiltless	guiltless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 court	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 court	nmod:poss
23	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 court	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 alive	punct
26	O	o	INTJ	_	32 alive	discourse
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 alive	mark
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 alive	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 alive	cop
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 alive	advmod
32	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grieves	advcl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 alive	punct
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 grieves	advmod
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 grieves	nsubj
36	grieves	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 killed	advcl
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 grieves	obj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 killed	aux
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	obj
42	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 said	ccomp
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	42 killed	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	This	the old king's heart			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme
2	think speech: other	past	king				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	might	king's son		still	guiltless property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	This not said here			to king's court	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to court=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	is	past	my son		still	alive property	tree rules
6	grieve	present	court	me			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
7	kill	past · perfect					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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