Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 1
The king of a great land died, and left his queen to take care of their only child.
Who acts: king · What happens: die, leave, take · To what, where: queen, care
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | amod |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | nmod |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 queen | nmod:poss |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 left | advcl |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 child | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 child | nmod:poss |
| 18 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 child | amod |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the king of a great land | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | the king of a great land not said here | king's queen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the king of a great land not said here | care | of their only child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of child=Initial_Location |
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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