Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 135
Then she discovered in what state of life the young lord had been born, and next morning complained of her wrongs to her father, and begged him to help her to get rid of her husband, who was nothing else but a tailor.
Who acts: queen, state, next morning, husband · What happens: discover, bear, complain, beg, help, get · To what, where: state, young lord, father, Boy, queen, nothing
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, state, next morning, husband), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 discovered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 state | case |
| 5 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 state | det |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 state | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lord | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lord | amod |
| 11 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 born | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 born | aux:pass |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 state | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 complained | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 complained | cc |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 morning | amod |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 complained | nsubj |
| 19 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wrongs | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wrongs | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wrongs | wrong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 complained | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 father | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 complained | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 begged | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 begged | cc |
| 28 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 begged | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 help | mark |
| 31 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 begged | advcl |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 help | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 get | mark |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 help | xcomp |
| 35 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 get | xcomp |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 husband | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 husband | nmod:poss |
| 38 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rid | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 nothing | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 nothing | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 nothing | cop |
| 42 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 38 husband | appos |
| 43 | else | else | ADV | _ | 42 nothing | advmod |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 tailor | cc |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 tailor | det |
| 46 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 husband | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | queen | what state of life | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bear | past · perfect · passive | what state of life not said here | the young lord | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | past | next morning | queen's father | of queen's wrongs | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient | |||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | queen not said here | Boy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | queen not said here | queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | queen not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | queen's husband but a tailor | nothing | else 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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