Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 95
After some time had passed, the Queen bore twins, two little sons, who were her great joy.
Who acts: Queen, two little sons · What happens: pass, twin, be · To what, where: great joy
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, two little sons), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 twins | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 twins | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 twins | nsubj |
| 9 | bore | bore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twins | compound |
| 10 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sons | punct |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sons | nummod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sons | amod |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 twins | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 joy | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 joy | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 joy | cop |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 joy | nmod:poss |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 joy | amod |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sons | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twin | Queen | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | two little sons and Queen's great joy | Queen's great joy | 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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