Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 152
At last, however, his wise men said, ‘this will not do; the king must marry again, that we may have a queen.’
Who acts: wise men, this, king, we · What happens: say, not do, marry, have · To what, where: last, queen · 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 (wise men, this, king, we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 do | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 do | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 marry | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 marry | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 marry | aux |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 marry | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 marry | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king's wise men | last | however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not do | future | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | marry | must | the king | again | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | may | we | a queen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
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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