Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 71
At this the king was overwhelmed with joy, and made it known throughout all his kingdom, that if his son would come back to his court he would forgive him.
Who acts: joy, son, king · What happens: overwhelm, make, know, come back, forgive · To what, where: joy, court, country
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 (joy, son, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 king | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overwhelmed | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overwhelmed | aux:pass |
| 6 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overwhelmed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overwhelmed | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 17 kingdom | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 kingdom | det:predet |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | parataxis |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 court | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 court | nmod:poss |
| 28 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 forgive | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 forgive | aux |
| 31 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 court | acl:relcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 forgive | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overwhelmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overwhelm | past · passive | at this king; with joy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | make | past | joy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | joy not said here | throughout king's kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come back a condition, not said to happen | would | king's son | king's court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | forgive | would | king | country | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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