Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 129
They rode back and announced this to the king.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: ride back, announce · To what, where: this, king
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 (attendants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 announced | cc |
| 5 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 announced | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 announced | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride back | past | attendants = attendant | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | past | attendants = attendant not said here | this | the king | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Theme to king=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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