Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 90
‘Heads Off!’ cried he; and with the word the traitors’ heads fell before him, and Heinel was once more king of the Golden Mountain.
Who acts: heads, Heinel · What happens: head off, cry, fall, be · To what, where: Heinel, word, king
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 (heads, Heinel), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heads | punct |
| 2 | Heads | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 2 Heads | compound:prt |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heads | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heads | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Heads | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 word | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 word | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Heads | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 traitors | det |
| 14 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 14 traitors | case |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 word | acl:relcl |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 king | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 king | cc |
| 22 | Heinel | Heinel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 king | cop |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 king | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 king | advmod |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Mountain | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Mountain | det |
| 29 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Mountain | amod |
| 30 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Heads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head off | present | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Heinel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the traitors's heads | the word not said here | before Heinel | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient word=Result | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Heinel | king | of the Golden Mountain; once property | tree rules |
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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