Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 15
So they brought in a dirty-looking fellow; and when he had sung before the king and the princess, he begged a boon.
Who acts: alms, king · What happens: bring, look, sing, beg · To what, where: boon
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 (alms, 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 | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fellow | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fellow | det |
| 6 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looking | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dirty | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 fellow | amod |
| 9 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sung | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 sung | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sung | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sung | aux |
| 15 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 brought | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sung | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 princess | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 begged | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 begged | nsubj |
| 24 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 boon | det |
| 26 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 begged | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | alms = alm | in a looking fellow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · perfect | king | before the king and the princess | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | king | a boon | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient |
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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