Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 17

The king looked at her and did not know her, but as they were such handsome fellows, he said: ‘Yes,’ and that he would willingly take them, and now they were the king’s twelve huntsmen.

Who acts: king, huntsmen · What happens: look, not know, be, say, take, huntsman · To what, where: desire, huntsmen · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, huntsmen), 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	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 know	cc
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looked	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
13	as	as	ADP	_	18 fellows	case
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fellows	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fellows	cop
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fellows	amod
17	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fellows	amod
18	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fellows	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
24	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	32 take	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 Yes	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 take	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 take	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 take	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 take	aux
31	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	32 take	advmod
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 take	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 huntsmen	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 huntsmen	cc
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 king	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 king	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 king	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 king	det
40	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 huntsmen	nsubj
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 king	case
42	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 huntsmen	nummod
43	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the king			at desire	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support	the king not said here	desire			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	is	past	huntsmen = huntsman			as such handsome fellows	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	would	king	huntsmen = huntsman		willingly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	is	past	huntsmen = huntsman		now	's the king	tree rules
7	huntsman		the king				tree rules

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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