Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 64
After a year the young Queen bore a son; and when the step-mother heard of her great good fortune, she came to the castle with her daughter, and behaved as if she had come on a visit.
Who acts: young Queen, mother · What happens: bear, come, behave · To what, where: son, castle, visit
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 (young Queen, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Queen | amod |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | nsubj |
| 7 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 heard | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heard | det |
| 14 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mother | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 step | punct |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | compound |
| 17 | heard | heard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fortune | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fortune | amod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fortune | amod |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bore | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 castle | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 daughter | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 castle | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 behaved | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 behaved | cc |
| 34 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 came | parataxis |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 come | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 come | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 behaved | advcl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 visit | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 visit | det |
| 42 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | the young Queen | a son | year | the mother heard of mother's great good fortune obl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||
| 2 | come | past | mother | the castle with mother's daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | behave | participle | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | mother | a visit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on visit=Location |
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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