Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 4
But this queen died; and the king soon married another wife, who was very beautiful, but so proud that she could not bear to think that any one could surpass her.
Who acts: queen, king, wife, one · What happens: die, marry, be, not bear, think, surpass · To what, where: wife, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, king, wife, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 died | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 married | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | nsubj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 married | advmod |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | conj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 beautiful | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 proud | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 proud | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 proud | advmod |
| 21 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 died | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 bear | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bear | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bear | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 bear | advmod |
| 26 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 proud | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 think | mark |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bear | xcomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 surpass | mark |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 surpass | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 surpass | aux |
| 33 | surpass | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 think | ccomp |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 surpass | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | this queen | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | marry | past | the king | another wife | soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | another wife | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not bear | could | queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | surpass | could | any one | queen | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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