Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 27

There was, however, a servant of the king’s who favoured the huntsmen, and when he heard that they were going to be put to this test he went to them and repeated everything, and said: ‘The lion wants to make the king believe that you are girls.’

Who acts: servant, king, huntsmen, lion, you · What happens: be, favour, hear, go, put, repeat · To what, where: huntsmen, everything, king, girls · 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 (servant, king, huntsmen, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 said	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 servant	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 servant	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 servant	det
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 servant	nmod
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 favoured	nsubj
13	favoured	favour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 king	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 huntsmen	det
15	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 favoured	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 heard	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 going	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 heard	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	27 put	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 put	aux:pass
27	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 going	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 test	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 test	det
30	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 put	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 repeated	cc
36	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 went	conj
37	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	36 repeated	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 said	cc
40	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 wants	punct
42	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 wants	punct
43	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 lion	det
44	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wants	nsubj
45	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 believe	parataxis
46	to	to	PART	_	47 make	mark
47	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 wants	xcomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 king	det
49	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 make	obj
50	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 said	ccomp
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 girls	mark
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 girls	nsubj
53	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 girls	cop
54	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 believe	ccomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a servant of the king			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	favour	past	the king	the huntsmen				tree rules
3	hear	past	servant					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	past · progressive	huntsmen = huntsman					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	put	to-infinitive · passive	huntsmen = huntsman not said here				to this test	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»
6	go	past	servant		huntsmen = huntsman			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
7	repeat	past	servant not said here	everything				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
8	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	want	present	the lion					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lion not said here	the king				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product
11	believe	present						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
12	is a	present	you	girls				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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