Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 159

When the courtiers heard this they were shocked, and said, ‘Heaven forbid that a father should marry his daughter!

Who acts: courtiers, Heaven, father · What happens: hear, be, say, forbid, marry · To what, where: this, daughter · 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 (courtiers, Heaven, father), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 courtiers	det
3	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shocked	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shocked	cop
8	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 forbid	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 forbid	punct
14	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 forbid	nsubj
15	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 marry	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 father	det
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	aux
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 forbid	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 daughter	nmod:poss
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the courtiers	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	courtiers = courtier		shocked property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	forbid	infinitive	Heaven			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
5	marry	should	a father	Heaven's daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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