Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 190
When the dance was over, the king ordered his soup to be brought in; and it pleased him so well, that he thought he had never tasted any so good before.
Who acts: dance, king · What happens: be, order, bring in, think, not taste · To what, where: soup, any · 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 (dance, king), 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 | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dance | det |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 ordered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ordered | nsubj |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soup | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ordered | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 brought | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 brought | aux:pass |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 soup | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 brought | compound:prt |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 pleased | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pleased | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 19 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ordered | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 well | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 pleased | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 thought | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ordered | conj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tasted | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tasted | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 tasted | advmod |
| 30 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 tasted | obj |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 good | advmod |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tasted | xcomp |
| 34 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 tasted | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dance | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | past | the king | king's soup | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring in | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | king's soup not said here | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not taste | past · perfect | king | any | before, good property | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme any=Attribute |
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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