Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 3

And there was a good fairy too, who was fond of the princess, and helped her mother to watch over her.

What happens: be, help, watch · To what, where: fairy

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: 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	_	3 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fond	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fairy	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fairy	amod
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fond	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fond	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fond	cop
11	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 princess	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fond	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 helped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 helped	cc
17	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fond	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 helped	obj
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 helped	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 watch	mark
21	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 helped	advcl
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 watch	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past		of the princess; fond property	tree rules
2	help	past	fairy		tree rules
3	watch	to-infinitive		over mother	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=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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