Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 87
And the young king rejoiced when he saw her beauty, and heard how meek and patient she had been; and without saying anything to the false bride, the king ordered a great feast to be got ready for all his court.
Who acts: young king, king · What happens: rejoice, see, hear, be, say, order · To what, where: young king, beauty, anything, great feast · 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 (young king, 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 | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 king | amod |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 king | acl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 meek | advmod |
| 15 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heard | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 patient | cc |
| 17 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 meek | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 been | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 been | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 meek | cop |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 saying | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saying | cc |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 saying | mark |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | parataxis |
| 25 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 saying | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 bride | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bride | det |
| 28 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bride | amod |
| 29 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ordered | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bride | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ordered | nsubj |
| 33 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 saying | parataxis |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 feast | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 feast | amod |
| 36 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ordered | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 got | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 got | aux:pass |
| 39 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 ordered | ccomp |
| 40 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 got | xcomp |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 court | case |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 court | det:predet |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 court | nmod:poss |
| 44 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ready | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | participle | the young king not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the young king | girl's beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the young king not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | participle | meek property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | |||||
| 7 | order | past | the king | a great feast | to the false bride | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent feast=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 8 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the king not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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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