Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 43
The princess was of so thoughtful and serious a turn of mind that no one could make her laugh; and the King had announced to all the world that whoever could make her laugh should have her for his wife.
Who acts: princess, one, thoughtful turn, King, world · What happens: be, make, laugh, announce, have · To what, where: thoughtful turn, world, laugh, princess
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 (princess, one, thoughtful turn, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turn | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 turn | case |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 thoughtful | advmod |
| 6 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turn | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 serious | cc |
| 8 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thoughtful | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 turn | det |
| 10 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mind | case |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 make | obj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turn | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 announced | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 announced | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 announced | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 announced | aux |
| 25 | announced | announce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 have | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 world | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 announced | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 make | nsubj |
| 31 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 make | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 make | aux |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 world | acl:relcl |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 laugh | nmod:poss |
| 35 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 have | aux |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 turn | parataxis |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 have | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 wife | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 wife | nmod:poss |
| 41 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | of a thoughtful turn; of mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | could | no one | a thoughtful turn | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | infinitive | a thoughtful turn not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | announce speech: other | past · perfect | the King | all world | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to world=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | make | could | all world | princess's laugh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset laugh=Product | ||||
| 6 | have | should | princess | for King's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 7 | laugh | princess | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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