Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 2
This child was a daughter, who was very beautiful; and her mother loved her dearly, and was very kind to her.
Who acts: child, daughter, mother · What happens: be, love · To what, where: daughter, dearly, child
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 (child, daughter, mother), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 daughter | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 loved | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 loved | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loved | nsubj |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 daughter | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dearly | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 loved | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kind | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kind | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kind | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 kind | advmod |
| 22 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 loved | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kind | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this child | a daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a daughter | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love | past | child's mother | child's dearly | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dearly=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | child's mother not said here | child | kind 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: «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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