Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 1
An old queen, whose husband had been dead some years, had a beautiful daughter.
Who acts: husband, old queen · What happens: be, have · To what, where: beautiful daughter
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, old queen), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dead | punct |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | acl:relcl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 years | det |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dead | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daughter | amod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | husband | year | dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | a old queen | a beautiful daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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