Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 2
Once upon a time the king held a great feast, and asked thither all her suitors; and they all sat in a row, ranged according to their rank--kings, and princes, and dukes, and earls, and counts, and barons, and knights.
Who acts: king, suitors · What happens: hold, ask, sit, range, accord, count · To what, where: great feast, suitors, dukes, row, barons
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, suitors), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 held | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | nsubj |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feast | amod |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | conj |
| 14 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 15 all | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 suitors | advmod |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 suitors | nmod:poss |
| 17 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asked | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sat | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sat | advmod |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 row | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 row | det |
| 25 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sat | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ranged | punct |
| 27 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 row | acl |
| 28 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 rank | case |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 according | fixed |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 rank | nmod:poss |
| 31 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sat | obl |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 kings | punct |
| 33 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rank | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 princes | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 princes | cc |
| 36 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rank | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dukes | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dukes | cc |
| 39 | dukes | duke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sat | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 earls | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 earls | cc |
| 42 | earls | earl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 dukes | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 counts | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 counts | cc |
| 45 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 barons | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 barons | cc |
| 48 | barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 counts | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 knights | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 knights | cc |
| 51 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 counts | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the king | a great feast | once property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king not said here | her suitors | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent suitor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | suitors = suitor | dukes and earls | a row | accord suitors's rank and kings and princes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | ||
| 4 | range | participle | a row not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | count | present | barons | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baron=Theme |
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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