Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 52
Her own daughter, who was as ugly as night, and had but one eye, for which she was continually reproached, said, "The luck of being a Queen has never happened to me." "
Who acts: own daughter, luck · What happens: be, have, reproach, say, not happen · To what, where: one eye, Sister, own daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own daughter, luck), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ugly | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 ugly | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ugly | cop |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 ugly | advmod |
| 8 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ugly | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 daughter | parataxis |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 eye | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 eye | nummod |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reproached | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 reproached | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reproached | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 reproached | aux:pass |
| 22 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 23 reproached | advmod |
| 23 | reproached | reproach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 had | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 luck | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 luck | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 luck | det |
| 29 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 happened | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Queen | case |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 Queen | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 Queen | det |
| 33 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 luck | nmod |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 happened | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 happened | advmod |
| 36 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 said | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 me | case |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 happened | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 happened | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 happened | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sister's own daughter | night | ugly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | one eye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 3 | reproach | past · passive | Sister | continually property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Sister's own daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | gerund | of a Queen | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not happen in a quote | present · perfect | the luck | Sister's own daughter = daughter | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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