Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 1

There was once a widow who had two daughters--one of whom was pretty and industrious, while the other was ugly and idle.

Who acts: widow, other · What happens: be, have · To what, where: two daughters

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, other), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 widow	det
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 widow	acl:relcl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	nummod
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 industrious	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 industrious	cop
15	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	17 industrious	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 industrious	cc
17	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ugly	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 ugly	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ugly	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ugly	cop
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 idle	cc
25	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ugly	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a widow		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a widow	two daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	is	past				industrious, pretty property	tree rules
4	is	past	the other			ugly property	tree rules
5	be		the other not said here				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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