Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who had no children; and this they lamented very much.
Who acts: queen, this · What happens: live, have, lament · To what, where: king, children
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, this), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 queen | cc |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 queen | acl:relcl |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 children | det |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 lamented | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lamented | cc |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 lamented | nsubj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lamented | nsubj |
| 19 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 lamented | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king and queen | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | ||
| 2 | have | past | queen | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lament | past | this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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