Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 24

After many, many years there came another king's son into that land, and an old man told him the story of the thicket of thorns, and how a beautiful palace stood behind it, in which was a wondrous princess, called Briar Rose, asleep with all her court.

Who acts: son, old man, beautiful palace · What happens: come, tell, stand, be, call · To what, where: land, story, palace, thicket, wondrous princess · 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 (son, old man, beautiful palace), 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	_	5 years	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 many	punct
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 son	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 story	det
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 thicket	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 thicket	det
26	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 story	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 thorns	case
28	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 thicket	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stood	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stood	cc
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 stood	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 palace	det
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 palace	amod
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stood	nsubj
35	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stood	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 princess	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	44 princess	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 princess	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 princess	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 princess	det
43	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 princess	amod
44	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stood	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 called	punct
46	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 princess	acl
47	Briar	Briar	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 called	xcomp
48	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Briar	flat
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 asleep	punct
50	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 princess	acl:relcl
51	with	with	ADP	_	54 court	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 court	det:predet
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 court	nmod:poss
54	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 asleep	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	another king's son			that land; there	year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	a old man	the story of the thicket of thorns	palace				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3	stand	past	a beautiful palace			thicket			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind it=Location
4	is	past						in a wondrous princess	tree rules
5	call	participle		a wondrous princess not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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