Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 12
The King had been married once before, and had seven children by his first wife, six boys and a girl, whom he loved above everything else in the world.
Who acts: King · What happens: marry, have, love · To what, where: King, seven children, first wife, world
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 before | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 married | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | conj |
| 11 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 children | nummod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 wife | amod |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boys | punct |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 boys | nummod |
| 19 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wife | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 girl | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 whom | punct |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 loved | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 loved | nsubj |
| 26 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wife | acl:relcl |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 28 everything | case |
| 28 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 26 loved | obj |
| 29 | else | else | ADV | _ | 28 everything | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 loved | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | the King | before property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | seven children | by King's first wife and six boys and a girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love | past | King | King's first wife and six boys and a girl | the world | 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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