Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 12
So the king got the nickname of Grisly-beard.
Who acts: king · What happens: get, nickname · To what, where: nickname, Grisly beard
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nickname | det |
| 6 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 beard | case |
| 8 | Grisly | grisly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beard | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Grisly | punct |
| 10 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nickname | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the king | the nickname of Grisly beard | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nickname=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | nickname | Grisly beard | nom nickname «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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