Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 7
The son was in such trouble that he did not think what he was doing, and said: ‘Yes, dear father, your will shall be done,’ and thereupon the king shut his eyes, and died.
Who acts: son, king · What happens: be, not think, do, say, shut, die · To what, where: such trouble, eyes · 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 (son, 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 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trouble | amod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 think | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 think | advmod |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trouble | advcl |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 doing | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 doing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 doing | aux |
| 15 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 think | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trouble | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 21 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 24 father | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 23 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 father | amod |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 done | nmod:poss |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 done | aux:pass |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 father | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 shut | cc |
| 34 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 37 shut | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 shut | nsubj |
| 37 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 shut | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 died | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 died | cc |
| 42 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the son | such trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | son | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · progressive | son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | do | shall · future · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 6 | shut | past | the king | son's eyes | thereupon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 7 | die | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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