Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 60
At this the son was vexed; and forgetting his word, turned his ring, and wished for his queen and son.
Who acts: forgetting, son · What happens: vex, forget, turn, wish, word · To what, where: word, ring
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forgetting, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 son | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 son | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vexed | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | aux:pass |
| 6 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 9 | forgetting | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 turned | csubj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 word | nmod:poss |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgetting | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgetting | punct |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vexed | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ring | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wished | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wished | cc |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 queen | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 queen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wished | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 son | cc |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 queen | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | at this son | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | forget | gerund | son's word | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | forgetting | son's ring | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | forgetting not said here | for son's queen and son | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for queen=Theme | ||||
| 5 | word | son | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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