Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 4
When I am king, I will return and fetch you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, return, fetch · To what, where: king, you
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 (I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 king | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 king | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | cop |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 return | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 return | aux |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fetch | cc |
| 10 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 return | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 fetch | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | future | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fetch | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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