Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 124
The king grew angry, and said: ‘That is not allowed; he must appear before me and tell his name.’
Who acts: king · What happens: grow, say, not allow, appear, tell, name · To what, where: That, name · 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), 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 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 allowed | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 allowed | punct |
| 10 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 allowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 allowed | advmod |
| 13 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 appear | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appear | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 appear | aux |
| 17 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 appear | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tell | cc |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 appear | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the king | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not allow | present · passive | That | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | appear | must | king | before me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | king not said here | king's name | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | name | king | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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