Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 36
And next morning when the king had his twelve huntsmen summoned, they went through the ante-chamber, and never once looked at the spinning-wheels.
Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: summon, go, look · To what, where: next morning, 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 (huntsmen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 summoned | cc |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 had | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 summoned | aux |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 huntsmen | nmod:poss |
| 9 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 huntsmen | nummod |
| 10 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 summoned | parataxis |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 chamber | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chamber | det |
| 17 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chamber | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ante | punct |
| 19 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 looked | cc |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 once | advmod |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 looked | advmod |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 went | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 wheels | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wheels | det |
| 27 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wheels | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 spinning | punct |
| 29 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 looked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · perfect · passive | next morning | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | go | past | huntsmen = huntsman | the ante chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | participle | huntsmen = huntsman not said here | at the spinning wheels; once property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wheel=Theme |
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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