Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Frog Prince, sentence 1
In the olden time, when wishing was having, there lived a King, whose daughters were all beautiful; but the youngest was so exceedingly beautiful that the Sun himself, although he saw her very, very often, was delighted every time she came out into the sunshine.
Who acts: daughters, youngest, Sun, she · What happens: wish, have, live, be, see, come out · To what, where: King, her, time, sunshine
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Frog Prince. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, youngest, Sun, she), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 wishing | advmod |
| 7 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 having | advcl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 having | aux |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 lived | expl |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 having | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beautiful | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beautiful | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beautiful | cop |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 King | amod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 beautiful | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 beautiful | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 youngest | det |
| 24 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 beautiful | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 beautiful | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 beautiful | advmod |
| 27 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 28 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lived | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 saw | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sun | det |
| 31 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 Sun | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 saw | punct |
| 34 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 36 saw | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 saw | nsubj |
| 36 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 beautiful | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 saw | obj |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 often | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 often | punct |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 often | advmod |
| 41 | often | often | ADV | _ | 44 delighted | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 often | punct |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 delighted | cop |
| 44 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 saw | conj |
| 45 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 time | det |
| 46 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 delighted | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 came | nsubj |
| 48 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 time | acl:relcl |
| 49 | out | out | ADV | _ | 48 came | advmod |
| 50 | into | into | ADP | _ | 52 sunshine | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 sunshine | det |
| 52 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 came | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | gerund | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | have | past · progressive | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | past | a King | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | daughters | all, beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the youngest | beautiful, exceedingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | past | the Sun Sun | her = she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the Sun Sun not said here | time | delighted, often property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | come out | past | she | every time not said here | the sunshine | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result |
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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