Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 52
Since, however, she was so beautiful, the King's heart was touched, and he conceived for her a strong affection.
Who acts: maiden, King · What happens: be, touch, conceive · To what, where: heart, strong affection
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 (maiden, 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 3 however | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beautiful | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 touched | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 King | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 touched | aux:pass |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beautiful | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 conceived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 conceived | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 conceived | nsubj |
| 19 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 conceived | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 affection | det |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 affection | amod |
| 24 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 conceived | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maiden | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | past · passive | the King's heart | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | conceive | past | King | a strong affection | for maiden | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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