Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 8
When therefore the son had been proclaimed king, and the time of mourning was over, he was forced to keep the promise which he had given his father, and caused the king’s daughter to be asked in marriage, and she was promised to him.
Who acts: time, son · What happens: proclaim, be, force, keep, give, cause · To what, where: son, promise, father, daughter, marriage, news
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 (time, son), 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 | 2 therefore | advmod |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 proclaimed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 proclaimed | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 7 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proclaimed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 over | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 over | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 over | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mourning | case |
| 14 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 over | cop |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 proclaimed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forced | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 forced | aux:pass |
| 20 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 proclaimed | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 forced | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 promise | det |
| 24 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 given | nsubj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 given | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 given | aux |
| 28 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 promise | acl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 given | iobj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 caused | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 caused | cc |
| 33 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 forced | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 king | case |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 caused | iobj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 asked | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 asked | aux:pass |
| 40 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 caused | advcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 marriage | case |
| 42 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 asked | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 promised | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 promised | cc |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 promised | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 promised | aux:pass |
| 47 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 forced | advcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 him | case |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 promised | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past · perfect · passive | the son | therefore property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme king=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the time of mourning | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | son | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | son not said here | the promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect · passive | the promise | son's father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient father=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cause | past | the king's daughter | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition daughter=Patient | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive · passive | marriage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 8 | promise speech: promise | past · passive | news | son | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |
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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