Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 33
Then he could easily guess what had happened, and much grief reigned in the royal court.
Who acts: king · What happens: guess, happen, reign · To what, where: much grief, royal court · 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), 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 guess | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 guess | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 guess | aux |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 guess | advmod |
| 5 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 guess | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grief | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grief | cc |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grief | amod |
| 12 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 13 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 grief | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 court | det |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 court | amod |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reigned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | could | king | then | easily property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | much grief | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reign | participle | much grief not said here | the royal court | tree rules |
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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