Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 128

In the morning the king came, and when he saw him lying there on the ground, he thought the evil spirits had killed him and he was dead.

Who acts: king, other · What happens: come, see, lie, think, kill, be · To what, where: other, ground, evil spirits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, other), 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 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thought	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	obj
13	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 saw	xcomp
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lying	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lying	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spirits	det
22	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spirits	amod
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 killed	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 killed	aux
25	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 thought	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 killed	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dead	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 dead	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dead	cop
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 killed	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the king			morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	king	other				tree rules
3	lie	gerund	other not said here		the ground; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
4	think speech: other	past	other					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	kill	past · perfect · passive		the evil spirits				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result
6	is	past	other				dead 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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