Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 82
The King had promised his daughter in marriage to whoever would venture, and she was the most beautiful young lady that the sun ever shone upon.
Who acts: King, wife · What happens: promise, venture, be, shine · To what, where: daughter, marriage, beautiful young lady
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | aux |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 marriage | case |
| 8 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 whoever | case |
| 10 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 marriage | nmod |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 venture | aux |
| 12 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 whoever | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lady | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lady | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lady | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lady | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lady | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lady | amod |
| 21 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sun | det |
| 24 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 shone | advmod |
| 26 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 lady | acl:relcl |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 shone | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | the King | King's daughter | marriage to whoever | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | |||
| 2 | venture | would | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | wife | the beautiful young lady | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine | participle · passive | the beautiful young lady | ever | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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