Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 85
And it was very lucky for her that she did so, for when she had done the king ordered royal clothes to be put upon her, and gazed on her with wonder, she was so beautiful.
Who acts: tale, girl, king · What happens: be, do, order, put, gaze · To what, where: royal clothes
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 (tale, girl, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lucky | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lucky | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lucky | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 lucky | advmod |
| 5 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lucky | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 did | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ordered | advcl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 did | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 done | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 ordered | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ordered | nsubj |
| 20 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lucky | parataxis |
| 21 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 clothes | amod |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 ordered | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 put | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 put | aux:pass |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 ordered | advcl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 put | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gazed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gazed | cc |
| 30 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lucky | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gazed | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 wonder | case |
| 34 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gazed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 beautiful | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 beautiful | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 beautiful | cop |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 beautiful | advmod |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gazed | parataxis |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tale | for girl; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | order | past | the king | royal clothes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | upon girl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: upon she=Destination | ||||
| 6 | gaze | past | tale not said here | on girl; with wonder | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | past | girl | beautiful 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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