Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 9
Then the twelfth, who had not yet given her gift, came forward and said that the bad wish must be fulfilled, but that she could soften it, and that the king's daughter should not die, but fall asleep for a hundred years.
Who acts: twelfth gift, eleven, daughter · What happens: not give, come forward, say, fulfil, soften, not die · To what, where: twelfth gift, bad wish, revenge · 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 (twelfth gift, eleven, daughter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 gift | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gift | det |
| 3 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gift | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 given | advmod |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 given | advmod |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gift | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gift | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gift | punct |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 fulfilled | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wish | det |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wish | amod |
| 20 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fulfilled | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 23 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 soften | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 soften | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 soften | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 soften | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 soften | aux |
| 29 | soften | soften | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 soften | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 die | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 die | cc |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 die | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 king | case |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 die | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 die | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 die | advmod |
| 40 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 soften | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fall | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 fall | cc |
| 43 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | conj |
| 44 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 fall | xcomp |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 years | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 hundred | det |
| 47 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 years | nummod |
| 48 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 fall | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | past · perfect · passive | eleven's twelfth gift | yet | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come forward | past | eleven's twelfth gift | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | eleven's twelfth gift not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fulfil | must · passive | the bad wish | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | soften | could | eleven | revenge | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not die | should | the king's daughter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | fall | infinitive | eleven's twelfth gift not said here | year | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | gift | eleven | nom gift «possession 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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