Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 76
Then she answered, "Yes, I am your dear wife;" and at that moment her life was restored by God's mercy, and she was again as beautiful and charming as ever.
Who acts: wife, mercy · What happens: answer, be, restore · To what, where: dear wife, life · 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 (wife, mercy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 answered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 6 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 12 wife | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yes | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wife | cop |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 moment | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 moment | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 moment | det |
| 18 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 restored | aux:pass |
| 22 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 moment | acl:relcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 mercy | case |
| 24 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 God | case |
| 26 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 again | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 again | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 again | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 again | cop |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 answered | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 beautiful | case |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 again | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 charming | cc |
| 35 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 beautiful | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 ever | case |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 charming | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | wife | your dear wife and that moment | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | restore | past · passive | God's mercy | wife's life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | wife | as beautiful; again 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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