Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 39
The king, however, would no longer believe the lion.
Who acts: king · What happens: believe · To what, where: lion
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 | 9 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 believe | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 believe | aux |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 believe | advmod |
| 9 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 believe | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | would | the king | the lion | however, long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus |
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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