Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 18

The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he knew all concealed and secret things.

Who acts: king, lion · What happens: have, be, conceal · To what, where: lion, wondrous animal

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, lion), 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	6 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 animal	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 animal	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 animal	det
12	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animal	amod
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lion	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 concealed	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 concealed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 concealed	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 concealed	aux
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 concealed	advmod
19	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 had	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 things	cc
21	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 things	amod
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 concealed	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	a lion	however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient
2	is a	past	a lion	a wondrous animal		tree rules
3	conceal	past	king		all property	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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