Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 6
The rest came, and after the feast was over they gave all their best gifts to the little princess; one gave her virtue, another beauty, another riches, and so on till she had all that was excellent in the world.
Who acts: rest, feast, one, that, fairies · What happens: come, be, give, have, gift · To what, where: virtue, world
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 (rest, feast, one, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rest | det |
| 2 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 gave | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feast | det |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gave | cop |
| 10 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 12 gave | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 gifts | det:predet |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 gifts | amod |
| 16 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 princess | amod |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gifts | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 25 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 beauty | punct |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 beauty | det |
| 28 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 virtue | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 riches | punct |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 riches | det |
| 31 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 virtue | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 on | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 on | cc |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 on | advmod |
| 35 | on | on | ADV | _ | 23 gave | conj |
| 36 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 38 had | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gave | advcl |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 excellent | det:predet |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 excellent | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 excellent | cop |
| 42 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 had | ccomp |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 world | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 world | det |
| 45 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 excellent | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the rest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the feast | give property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | one | rest's virtue and another riches | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | that | the world | excellent property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | gift | fairies = fairy | to the little princess | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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