Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 2
But one day, as the queen was walking by the side of the river, a little fish lifted its head out of the water, and said, "Your wish shall be fulfilled, and you shall soon have a daughter."
Who acts: queen, little fish, you, Your · What happens: walk, lift, say, fulfil, have, wish · To what, where: one day, head, water, wish, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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, little fish, you, Your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 lifted | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lifted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walking | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 walking | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walking | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 walking | aux |
| 9 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 day | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walking | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lifted | nsubj |
| 20 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lifted | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lifted | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lifted | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fulfilled | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 fulfilled | punct |
| 32 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wish | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 fulfilled | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 36 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 said | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 have | cc |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 have | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 have | aux |
| 41 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 42 have | advmod |
| 42 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lifted | parataxis |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 daughter | det |
| 44 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 have | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the queen | one day not said here | by the side of the river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme by side=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lift | past | a little fish | fish's head | the water | day | tree rules | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a little fish not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fulfil in a quote | shall · passive | Your wish | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | shall | you | a daughter | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 6 | wish in a quote | Your | 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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