Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 43
The king thought something had happened to his dear huntsman, ran up to him, wanted to help him, and drew his glove off.
Who acts: king, something · What happens: think, happen, run up, want, help, draw off · To what, where: king, glove · Speech: someone speaks here
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, something), 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 huntsman | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 huntsman | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 huntsman | amod |
| 10 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 ran | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wanted | punct |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wanted | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drew | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drew | cc |
| 23 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 glove | nmod:poss |
| 25 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drew | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 drew | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | something | to king's dear huntsman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run up | past | king | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | |||||
| 4 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | king | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | draw off | past | the king not said here | king's glove | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=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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