Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 1
Once upon a time there was a youth named Frederick and a girl called Catherine, who had married and lived together as a young couple.
Who acts: youth · What happens: be, name, call, marry, live together · To what, where: youth, girl, Catherine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 youth | acl |
| 10 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 named | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 girl | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 youth | conj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 girl | acl |
| 15 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 married | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 married | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 married | aux |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Catherine | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lived | cc |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 married | conj |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 lived | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 couple | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 couple | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 couple | amod |
| 26 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a youth and a girl | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a youth and a girl not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | a girl not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | marry | past · perfect · passive | Catherine | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | live together | past | as a young couple; together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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