Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 209
But when the king had ordered a feast to be got ready for the third time, it happened just the same as before.
Who acts: king, it · What happens: order, get, happen · To what, where: feast
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, it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 ordered | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 ordered | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ordered | aux |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 got | aux:pass |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 feast | acl |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 got | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ready | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 happened | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ordered | conj |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 same | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 same | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 happened | xcomp |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 before | case |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 same | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past · perfect | the king | a feast | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | a feast not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||
| 3 | happen | past | it | same property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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