Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 17

The king had a son of eight years, who was once playing in the courtyard, and while he was playing, his golden ball fell into the cage.

Who acts: king, son, golden ball · What happens: have, play, fall · To what, where: son, courtyard, cage

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, son, golden ball), 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 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 son	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 playing	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 playing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 playing	aux
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 playing	advmod
13	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 son	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 courtyard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 courtyard	det
16	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 playing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 playing	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 playing	cc
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 playing	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 playing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 playing	aux
22	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 had	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ball	nmod:poss
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ball	amod
26	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 playing	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 cage	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cage	det
30	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	a son of eight years			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	play	past · progressive	a son of eight years		the courtyard	once property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	past · progressive	king				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	king's golden ball			into the cage result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into cage=Result

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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