Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 202
Then she would not own that she knew anything about the ring; so the king sent her away again about her business.
Who acts: truth, king · What happens: not own, know, send away · To what, where: anything, truth
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 (truth, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 own | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 own | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 own | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 own | advmod |
| 5 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 own | advcl |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 knew | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 ring | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anything | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 sent | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 own | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 sent | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 sent | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 business | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 business | nmod:poss |
| 23 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 own | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not own | would | truth | then | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | know | past | truth | anything | about the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | send away | past | the king | truth | again | about truth's business; away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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