Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 34

But the servant, who was well disposed to the huntsmen, went to them, and disclosed the project.

Who acts: servant · What happens: dispose, go, disclose · To what, where: servant, huntsmen, project

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 disposed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 disposed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 disposed	aux:pass
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 disposed	advmod
8	disposed	dispose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 servant	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 huntsmen	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 huntsmen	det
11	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 disposed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 disclosed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 disclosed	cc
18	disclosed	disclose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 project	det
20	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disclosed	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	dispose	past · passive		the servant		to the huntsmen; well property	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient to huntsman=Theme
2	go	past	the servant		huntsmen = huntsman		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
3	disclose	past	the servant not said here	the project			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot project=Topic

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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