Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 14
When they came to the king’s daughter, she had twelve suits of huntsmen’s clothes made, all alike, and the eleven maidens had to put on the huntsmen’s clothes, and she herself put on the twelfth suit.
Who acts: maidens, desire, eleven maidens · What happens: come, have, make, put · To what, where: twelve suits, clothes, twelfth suit
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, desire, eleven maidens), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 daughter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 suits | nummod |
| 13 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 15 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 huntsmen | case |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 suits | nmod |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 clothes | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 alike | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 alike | advmod |
| 21 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 made | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maidens | det |
| 25 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 maidens | nummod |
| 26 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 put | mark |
| 29 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | xcomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 clothes | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 huntsmen | det |
| 32 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 huntsmen | case |
| 34 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 29 put | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 put | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 put | cc |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 put | nsubj |
| 38 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 she | conj |
| 39 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 had | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 suit | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 suit | det |
| 42 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 suit | amod |
| 43 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 put | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | maidens = maiden | to the king's daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to daughter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | desire | twelve suits of huntsmen's clothes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | huntsmen's clothes not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the eleven maidens | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive | the eleven maidens not said here | the huntsmen's clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 6 | put | participle | desire | the twelfth suit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on suit=Destination |
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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