Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 14

Their mother said the beautiful child must have been the angel who keeps watch over good children.

Who acts: mother, beautiful child, angel · What happens: say, be, keep, watch over · To what, where: angel, good children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, beautiful child, angel), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 angel	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 angel	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 angel	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 angel	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 angel	det
11	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 keeps	nsubj
13	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 angel	acl:relcl
14	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 keeps	xcomp
15	over	over	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 watch	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	children's mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must · perfect	the beautiful child	the angel	tree rules
3	keep	present	the angel		tree rules
4	watch over	present	the angel not said here	good children	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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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