Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 119

Then she understood of what condition her husband was, and complained in the morning to her father, and begged he would free her from her husband, who was nothing more than a tailor.

Who acts: Queen, husband · What happens: understand, complain, beg, be · To what, where: condition, nothing

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, husband), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 understood	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understood	nsubj
3	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 understood	obl
6	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 complained	nsubj
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 complained	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 complained	aux:pass
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 complained	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 complained	cc
12	complained	complain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 what	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 complained	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 father	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 complained	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 begged	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 begged	cc
21	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 understood	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 free	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 free	aux
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 begged	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 free	nsubj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 husband	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 begged	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 nothing	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 nothing	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 nothing	cop
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 husband	appos
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 nothing	amod
34	than	than	ADP	_	36 tailor	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 tailor	det
36	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 more	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Queen		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of what=Stimulus
2	complain speech: other	past · passive		condition	morning	to Queen's father	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	Queen not said here			from Queen's husband; free property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Queen's husband	nothing			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: «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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