Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 29
When the king came home, he observed the empty cage, and asked the queen how that had happened.
Who acts: king, that · What happens: come, observe, ask, happen · To what, where: empty cage, queen · 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 (king, that), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 observed | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 observed | nsubj |
| 8 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cage | det |
| 10 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cage | amod |
| 11 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 observed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 observed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 happened | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | observe | past | king | the empty cage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cage=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king not said here | the queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | that | 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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