Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 80

Now it so happened that their wish was granted and a child was given them, but although it was perfect in all its limbs, it was no longer than a thumb.

Who acts: it, wish, fire, houses · What happens: happen, grant, give, be, wish · To what, where: wish, child, limbs

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, wish, fire, houses), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 granted	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wish	nmod:poss
7	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 granted	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 granted	aux:pass
9	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 given	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 given	aux:pass
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 granted	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 given	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 perfect	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 perfect	cc
18	although	although	SCONJ	_	21 perfect	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 perfect	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 perfect	cop
21	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happened	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 limbs	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 limbs	det:predet
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 limbs	nmod:poss
25	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 perfect	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thumb	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thumb	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thumb	cop
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 thumb	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 thumb	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thumb	det
33	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grant	past · passive		houses's wish				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
3	give	past · passive		a child				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme
4	is	past	wish		fire's limbs		perfect property	tree rules
5	is	past	fire				than a thumb; long property	tree rules
6	wish		houses = house					nom wish «feeling 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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