Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 81
But the old king begged so hard that she had no peace till she had told him all, word for word: and it was very lucky for her that she did so, for the king ordered royal clothes to be put upon her, and he gazed with wonder, she was so beautiful.
Who acts: old king, girl, word, king · What happens: beg, have, tell, be, do, order · To what, where: peace, word, king, royal clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old king, girl, word, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 begged | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 hard | advmod |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 begged | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begged | advcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 peace | det |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 told | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 had | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 word | det |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 word | punct |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 word | case |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 word | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 lucky | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lucky | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lucky | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lucky | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 lucky | advmod |
| 28 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 begged | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lucky | obl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 did | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 did | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lucky | advcl |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 did | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ordered | punct |
| 36 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 ordered | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ordered | nsubj |
| 39 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lucky | parataxis |
| 40 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 clothes | amod |
| 41 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 39 ordered | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 put | mark |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 put | aux:pass |
| 44 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 ordered | advcl |
| 45 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 put | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 gazed | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 gazed | cc |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 gazed | nsubj |
| 50 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lucky | conj |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 wonder | case |
| 52 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 gazed | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 beautiful | punct |
| 54 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 beautiful | nsubj |
| 55 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 beautiful | cop |
| 56 | so | so | ADV | _ | 57 beautiful | advmod |
| 57 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lucky | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | participle | the old king | hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | girl | no peace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | girl | all word | king | for word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient word=Topic | ||
| 4 | is | past | word | for girl; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | order | past | the king | royal clothes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 7 | put | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | upon girl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: upon she=Destination | ||||
| 8 | gaze | past | king | with wonder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | is | past | girl | beautiful property | tree rules |
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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