Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 40
The twelve huntsmen always followed the king to the chase, and his liking for them continually increased.
Who acts: twelve huntsmen, liking · What happens: follow, increase · To what, where: king, chase
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 (twelve huntsmen, liking), 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 | 3 huntsmen | det |
| 2 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 huntsmen | nummod |
| 3 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 followed | advmod |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chase | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chase | det |
| 10 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 followed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 increased | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 increased | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 liking | nmod:poss |
| 14 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 increased | nsubj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 liking | nmod |
| 17 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 18 increased | advmod |
| 18 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the twelve huntsmen | the king | the chase | always property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme to chase=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | increase | past | king's liking for huntsmen | continually property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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