Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 93
And the young king was then married to his true wife, and they reigned over the kingdom in peace and happiness all their lives; and the good fairy came to see them, and restored the faithful Falada to life again.
Who acts: hills, good fairy · What happens: marry, reign, come, see, restore · To what, where: young king, lives, kingdom, hills, faithful Falada, life
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 (hills, good fairy), 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 | _ | 7 married | 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 | 7 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 married | advmod |
| 7 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wife | amod |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 married | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reigned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reigned | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reigned | nsubj |
| 15 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 kingdom | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kingdom | det |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reigned | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 peace | case |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reigned | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 happiness | cc |
| 22 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 peace | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 lives | det:predet |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reigned | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fairy | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fairy | amod |
| 30 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 married | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 came | advcl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 see | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 restored | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 restored | cc |
| 37 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 came | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Falada | det |
| 39 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Falada | amod |
| 40 | Falada | Falada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 restored | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 life | case |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 restored | obl |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 restored | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the young king | then | to king's true wife | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to wife=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | reign | past | hills = hill | hills's lives | the kingdom | in peace and happiness | tree rules | ||
| 3 | come | past | the good fairy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the good fairy not said here | hills = hill | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | restore | past | the good fairy not said here | the faithful Falada | life | again | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent falada=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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