Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 29
At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire.
Who acts: woman, God · What happens: hope, be, grant, desire · To what, where: length, desire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, God), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hoped | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hoped | nsubj |
| 5 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 about | mark |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 about | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 about | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hoped | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 grant | mark |
| 11 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 about | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 desire | nmod:poss |
| 13 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grant | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | the woman | length | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | is | past | God | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant | to-infinitive | God not said here | woman's desire | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desire | woman | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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