Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 42
At last they came to a city, where reigned a King who had an only daughter.
Who acts: brothers, King · What happens: come, reign, have · To what, where: last, King, only daughter
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, King), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reigned | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 reigned | advmod |
| 10 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 city | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 King | acl:relcl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 daughter | det |
| 16 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 daughter | amod |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | brothers = brother | last | to a city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | reign | participle | a King | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a King | a only daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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: «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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