Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 68
Such a thing as that had never yet come under the king’s notice, and he said: ‘When you come to the royal table you must take your hat off.’
Who acts: son, you, king · What happens: come, say, take off, notice · To what, where: notice, hat · 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 (son, you, 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 thing | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 yet | advmod |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 notice | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 notice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 21 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 come | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 table | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 26 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 table | amod |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 take | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | aux |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 come | conj |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hat | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 take | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king's notice | yet | as such thing | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under notice=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take off | must | you | your hat | to the royal table | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | |||
| 5 | notice | the king | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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