Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 7

Now the princess’s horse was the fairy’s gift, and it was called Falada, and could speak.

Who acts: horse, gift · What happens: be, call, speak · To what, where: gift, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (horse, gift), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 horse	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 princess	case
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gift	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gift	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairy	det
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gift	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 fairy	case
10	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 called	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gift	acl:relcl
16	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 speak	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 speak	cc
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 speak	aux
20	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 gift	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the princess's horse	the fairy's gift	tree rules
2	call	past · passive	the fairy's gift not said here	horse	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	speak speech: other	could			vn talk-37.5 «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.

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