Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 90

The king gathered together his people, and did not know whether or not he could offer any opposition to the enemy, who was superior in strength and had a mighty army.

Who acts: king, enemy · What happens: gather, not know, offer, be, have · To what, where: people, opposition, enemy, strength, mighty army

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, enemy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 gathered	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 people	nmod:poss
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gathered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gathered	conj
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 offer	mark
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 whether	fixed
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 whether	fixed
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 offer	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 offer	aux
17	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	advcl
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 opposition	det
19	opposition	opposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 offer	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 enemy	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 enemy	det
22	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 offer	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 superior	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 superior	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 superior	cop
26	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 enemy	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 strength	case
28	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 superior	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 army	det
32	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 army	amod
33	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the king	king's people		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support	the king not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	offer	could	king	any opposition		to the enemy goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent opposition=Theme to enemy=Goal
4	is	past	the enemy		strength	superior property	tree rules
5	have	past	the king not said here	a mighty army			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient

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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