Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 61

In an instant they stood before him; but the queen wept, and said he had broken his word, and bad luck would follow.

Who acts: guards, queen, son, bad luck · What happens: stand, weep, say, break, follow, word · To what, where: instant, word · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (guards, queen, son, bad luck), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 wept	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 wept	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wept	nsubj
12	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 broken	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 broken	aux
18	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 word	nmod:poss
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broken	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 follow	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 follow	cc
23	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 luck	amod
24	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 follow	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 follow	aux
26	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 broken	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	guards = guard		a instant	before son	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=Location
2	weep	past	the queen				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	guards = guard not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	break	past · perfect	son	son's word			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient
5	follow	would	bad luck				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	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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