Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 4

So he invited not only his relations, friends, and neighbors, but also all the fairies, that they might be kind and good to his little daughter.

Who acts: wish, relations · What happens: invite, be · To what, where: relations

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 (wish, relations), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 invited	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invited	nsubj
3	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 relations	advmod
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 relations	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 relations	nmod:poss
7	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invited	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 relations	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 neighbors	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 neighbors	cc
12	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 relations	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fairies	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fairies	cc
15	also	also	ADV	_	16 all	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 fairies	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fairies	det
18	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invited	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kind	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 kind	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kind	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 kind	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 kind	cop
24	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 invited	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 good	cc
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kind	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 daughter	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 daughter	nmod:poss
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 daughter	amod
30	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kind	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	invite	past	wish	wish's relations and friends and neighbors	all fairies obl	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Recipient
2	is	might	relations = relation		to wish's little daughter; kind property	tree rules
3	be		relations = relation not said here			tree rules

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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