Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 2
When she grew up, she was betrothed to a prince who lived a great way off; and as the time drew near for her to be married, she got ready to set off on her journey to his country.
Who acts: queen, prince, time · What happens: grow up, betroth, live, draw, marry, get · To what, where: queen, prince, great way, journey
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 (queen, prince, time), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 betrothed | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 betrothed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 8 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 betrothed | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 prince | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 16 way | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 drew | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drew | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 drew | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drew | nsubj |
| 23 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 betrothed | parataxis |
| 24 | near | near | ADV | _ | 23 drew | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 married | mark |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 married | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 married | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 married | aux:pass |
| 29 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 drew | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 got | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 got | nsubj |
| 32 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 drew | conj |
| 33 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 got | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 set | mark |
| 35 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 ready | xcomp |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 set | compound:prt |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 journey | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 journey | nmod:poss |
| 39 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 set | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 country | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 country | nmod:poss |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 set | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 betrothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | queen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | betroth | past · passive | queen | a prince | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a prince | a great way | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme way=Location | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | the time | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | queen | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | get | past | queen | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | set off | to-infinitive | queen not said here | queen's journey | to husband's country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | journey | queen | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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