Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 56
Now, the King had a wicked step-mother, who was discontented with his marriage, and spoke evil of the young Queen. "
Who acts: King · What happens: have, discontent, speak, marry · To what, where: wicked step mother, evil · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mother | amod |
| 8 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 step | punct |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 discontented | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 discontented | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 discontented | aux:pass |
| 14 | discontented | discontent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mother | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 marriage | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 discontented | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoke | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spoke | cc |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 21 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spoke | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Queen | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Queen | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Queen | amod |
| 25 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 evil | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the King | a wicked step mother | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | |||
| 2 | discontent | past · passive | a wicked step mother | with King's marriage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the King not said here | evil of the young Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | King | nom marriage «state 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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