Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 151
But the king was not to be comforted, and for a long time never thought of taking another wife.
What happens: not comfort, not think, take · To what, where: king, wife
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 comforted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comforted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 comforted | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 comforted | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 comforted | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 comforted | aux:pass |
| 8 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | obl |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 thought | advmod |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 comforted | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 taking | mark |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 thought | advcl |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 wife | det |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not comfort | past · passive | the king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | another wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
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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