Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 15

However, the king hoped still to save his dear child altogether from the threatened evil; so he ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and burnt.

Who acts: king, twelfth · What happens: hope, save, order, buy up, burnt · To what, where: dear child, threatened evil, spindles

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, twelfth), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 hoped	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hoped	nsubj
5	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	8 save	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 save	mark
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hoped	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 child	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 child	amod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	obj
12	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	8 save	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 evil	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 evil	det
15	threatened	threatened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 evil	amod
16	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ordered	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 ordered	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ordered	nsubj
20	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hoped	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 bought	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 spindles	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spindles	det
24	spindles	spindle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bought	nsubj:pass
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 kingdom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 kingdom	det
27	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spindles	nmod
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bought	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 bought	aux:pass
30	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 ordered	ccomp
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 bought	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 burnt	cc
33	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 bought	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hoped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	the king				however property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	save	to-infinitive	the king not said here	twelfth's dear child	the threatened evil	still	altogether property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from evil=Source
3	order	past	twelfth					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	buy up	should · passive		all spindles in the kingdom				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	burnt	participle						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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