Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 113
The king said to his daughter: ‘I will proclaim a great feast that shall last for three days, and you shall throw a golden apple.
Who acts: king, I, great feast, you · What happens: say, proclaim, last, throw · To what, where: great feast, golden apple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, I, great feast, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 daughter | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 proclaim | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 proclaim | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 proclaim | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 proclaim | aux |
| 11 | proclaim | proclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feast | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feast | amod |
| 14 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proclaim | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 last | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 last | aux |
| 17 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 feast | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 days | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 days | nummod |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 last | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 throw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 throw | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 throw | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 throw | aux |
| 25 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 proclaim | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 apple | det |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 apple | amod |
| 28 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 throw | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | to king's daughter | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to daughter=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | proclaim | future | I | a great feast | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | ||||
| 3 | last | shall | a great feast | day | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | shall | you | a golden apple | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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