Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 5

Now there were thirteen fairies in his kingdom, and he had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, so that he was obliged to leave one of the fairies without an invitation.

Who acts: thirteen fairies, wish, fairies · What happens: be, have, eat out, oblige, leave · To what, where: twelve golden dishes, wish, one

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 (thirteen fairies, wish, fairies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11027:859): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 were	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fairies	nummod
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kingdom	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kingdom	nmod:poss
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fairies	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 were	conj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 twelve	advmod
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 dishes	nummod
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dishes	amod
16	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 eat	mark
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 eat	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dishes	acl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 eat	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 out	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 obliged	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 obliged	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 obliged	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 obliged	aux:pass
28	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 had	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 leave	mark
30	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 obliged	xcomp
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 leave	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 fairies	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fairies	det
34	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 one	nmod
35	without	without	ADP	_	37 invitation	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 invitation	det
37	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leave	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	thirteen fairies in wish's kingdom		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	wish	twelve golden dishes				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
3	eat out	to-infinitive	fairies = fairy	twelve golden dishes not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	oblige	past · passive		wish				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	leave	to-infinitive		one of the fairies			without a invitation	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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