Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 22
And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.’
Who acts: I, son · What happens: not give, sleep · To what, where: sleeping draught, son
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 (I, son), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 given | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 given | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 soldier | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 as | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 given | advmod |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 given | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 given | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 given | advmod |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 given | iobj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 draught | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 draught | amod |
| 16 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 slept | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 slept | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 slept | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 slept | aux |
| 21 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 given | conj |
| 22 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 21 slept | advmod |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 slept | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | past · perfect | I | son's sleeping draught | son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient draught=Theme | |||
| 2 | sleep | would · perfect | son | enough, soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/10/22/