Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 57
She gave her, too, the form and appearance of the real Queen, as far as she was able; but she could not restore the lost eye, and, so that the King might not notice it, she turned her upon that side where there was no eye.
Who acts: Queen, King · What happens: give, be, not restore, lose, not notice, turn · To what, where: form, daughter, lost eye
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 (Queen, King), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 form | punct |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 form | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 form | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 appearance | cc |
| 10 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Queen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Queen | det |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Queen | amod |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 appearance | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 far | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 gave | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 able | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 far | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 restore | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 restore | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 restore | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 restore | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 restore | advmod |
| 27 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 eye | det |
| 29 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 eye | amod |
| 30 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 restore | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 notice | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 notice | cc |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 notice | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 notice | advmod |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 notice | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 notice | nsubj |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 notice | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 notice | advmod |
| 40 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 restore | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 notice | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 turned | punct |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 turned | nsubj |
| 44 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 turned | obj |
| 46 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 48 side | case |
| 47 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 side | det |
| 48 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 turned | obl |
| 49 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 51 was | advmod |
| 50 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 51 was | expl |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 side | acl:relcl |
| 52 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 53 eye | det |
| 53 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 was | nsubj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Queen | the form and appearance of the real Queen | daughter | far property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient form=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | Queen | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not restore | could | Queen | the lost eye | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not notice | might | the King | form | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | turn | past | Queen | daughter | upon that side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent her=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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