Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 111

The gay times she had at the King's Court caused her to forget that she had made a very foolish promise.

Who acts: daughter, Court · What happens: have, cause, forget, make · To what, where: daughter, foolish promise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Court), 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	3 times	det
2	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl:unmarked
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	11 caused	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Court	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 caused	nsubj
11	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	ccomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caused	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 forget	mark
14	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 caused	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 forget	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 promise	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 foolish	advmod
21	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 promise	amod
22	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	daughter			time	tree rules
2	cause	past	the King's Court		daughter		tree rules
3	forget	to-infinitive	the King's Court not said here				tree rules
4	make	past · perfect	daughter	a foolish promise			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product

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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