Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 33
The king liked the advice, and had the spinning-wheels placed in the ante-chamber.
Who acts: king · What happens: like, have, place · To what, where: advice, spinning wheels, ante chamber
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 | 3 liked | nsubj |
| 3 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 advice | det |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 liked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 liked | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wheels | det |
| 10 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wheels | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 spinning | punct |
| 12 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wheels | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 chamber | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chamber | det |
| 16 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chamber | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ante | punct |
| 18 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | the king | the advice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the king not said here | the spinning wheels | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | place | participle | the spinning wheels not said here | the ante chamber | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in chamber=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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