Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 22
But there went a report through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose, for thus was the king's daughter called; so that from time to time several kings' sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
Who acts: sons · What happens: go, be, call, come, try, break · To what, where: report, land, daughter, thicket · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 went | expl |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 report | det |
| 5 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 land | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sleeping | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sleeping | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sleeping | amod |
| 13 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 land | nmod |
| 14 | Briar | Briar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sleeping | appos |
| 15 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Briar | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 daughter | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 daughter | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 daughter | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 king | case |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 daughter | acl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 went | obl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 32 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kings | amod |
| 33 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sons | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 33 kings | case |
| 35 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tried | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 tried | cc |
| 39 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 came | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 break | mark |
| 41 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 tried | xcomp |
| 42 | through | through | ADP | _ | 44 thicket | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 thicket | det |
| 44 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 break | obl |
| 45 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 palace | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 palace | det |
| 47 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 break | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a report | all land of the beautiful sleeping; there | time | so that | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location report=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | for the king's daughter; thus property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | the king's daughter not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | several kings's sons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | try | past | several kings's sons not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | break not said to happen | to-infinitive | several kings's sons not said here | the thicket | into the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through thicket=Location |
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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