Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 1

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, have · To what, where: twelve beautiful daughters

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 king	acl:relcl
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	nummod
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 daughters	amod
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a king			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a king	twelve beautiful daughters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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