Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 72
At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire.
Who acts: woman, God · What happens: hope, be, grant, desire · To what, where: length, desire · 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 (woman, God), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hoped | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hoped | nsubj |
| 5 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 about | mark |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 about | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 about | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hoped | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 grant | mark |
| 11 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 about | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 desire | nmod:poss |
| 13 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grant | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | the woman | length | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | past | God | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant | to-infinitive | God not said here | woman's desire | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desire | woman | nom desire «feeling 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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