Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 3
What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl who was so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on her for joy, and determined to hold a great feast.
Who acts: little fish, queen, little girl, king · What happens: foretell, come, pass, have, be, not cease · To what, where: little girl, great feast
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 (little fish, queen, little girl, king), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 came | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fish | amod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 foretold | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 foretold | aux |
| 6 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 foretold | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pass | mark |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 beautiful | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beautiful | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | acl:relcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 cease | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cease | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 cease | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 cease | advmod |
| 29 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 beautiful | advcl |
| 30 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 cease | xcomp |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 joy | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 joy | nmod:poss |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 joy | case |
| 34 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 looking | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 determined | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 determined | cc |
| 37 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 had | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 hold | mark |
| 39 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 determined | xcomp |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 feast | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 feast | amod |
| 42 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hold | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foretell | past · perfect | the little fish | soon property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | the queen | a little girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a little girl | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not cease | could | the king | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | look | gerund | the king not said here | on queen's joy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on joy=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hold | to-infinitive | a little girl not said here | a great feast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | ||||
| 9 | joy | queen | nom joy «feeling transitive»: 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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