Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 26
The king was well pleased with the counsel, and caused the peas to be strewn.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, cause · To what, where: peas
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), 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 | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 counsel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 counsel | det |
| 8 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caused | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caused | cc |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peas | det |
| 13 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 caused | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 strewn | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 strewn | cop |
| 16 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 caused | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | with the counsel; pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | the king not said here | the peas | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pea=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | the king not said here | strewn property | 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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