Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 33

Then said the first, "I grant to her that she shall become more beautiful every day."

Who acts: I, girl · What happens: say, grant, become · To what, where: first, girl · 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 (I, girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 first	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 said	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grant	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 grant	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 grant	nsubj
8	grant	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grant	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 become	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 become	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 become	aux
14	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grant	advcl
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 beautiful	advmod
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 become	xcomp
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beautiful	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the first		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	grant in a quote	present	I		girl			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to she=Goal
3	become in a quote	shall	girl				beautiful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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