Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 32
The girl told all that had happened to her; and as soon as the mother heard how she had come by so much wealth, she was very anxious to obtain the same good luck for the ugly and lazy daughter.
Who acts: girl, that, mother · What happens: tell, happen, hear, come, be, obtain · To what, where: girl, same good luck · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, that, mother), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 happened | det:predet |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 soon | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 soon | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 told | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 heard | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 soon | advcl |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 come | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 heard | ccomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 wealth | case |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wealth | amod |
| 25 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 anxious | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 anxious | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 anxious | cop |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 anxious | advmod |
| 30 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 come | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 obtain | mark |
| 32 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 anxious | csubj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 luck | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 luck | amod |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 luck | amod |
| 36 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 obtain | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 daughter | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 daughter | det |
| 39 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 daughter | amod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 lazy | cc |
| 41 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ugly | conj |
| 42 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 luck | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the girl | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | girl | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the mother | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | girl | by much wealth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wealth=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | girl | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | obtain | to-infinitive | the same good luck | for the ugly daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent luck=Theme for daughter=Asset |
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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