Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 46

He sent a messenger to the other bride, and entreated her to return to her own kingdom, for he had a wife already, and someone who had just found an old key did not require a new one.

Who acts: king, someone · What happens: send, entreat, return, have, find, not require · To what, where: messenger, other bride, bride, wife, old key, new one

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, someone), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 messenger	det
4	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 bride	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bride	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bride	amod
8	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 entreated	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 entreated	cc
11	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 entreated	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 return	mark
14	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 entreated	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 kingdom	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 kingdom	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kingdom	amod
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 return	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 had	case
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 entreated	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wife	det
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	already	already	ADV	_	22 had	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 require	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 require	cc
28	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 require	nsubj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 found	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 found	aux
31	just	just	ADV	_	32 found	advmod
32	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 someone	acl:relcl
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 key	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 key	amod
35	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 require	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 require	advmod
38	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 one	det
40	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 one	amod
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 require	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	king	a messenger	the other bride		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to bride=Destination
2	entreat	past	king not said here	bride			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	return	to-infinitive	king not said here			to bride's own kingdom result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kingdom=Result
4	have	past	king	a wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
5	find	past · perfect		a old key			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Topic
6	not require	past · do-support	someone	a new one			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Precondition

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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