Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 88
‘One is not offered a beautiful princess and half a kingdom every day of one’s life!’
What happens: not offer · To what, where: One
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 offered | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 offered | advmod |
| 5 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 princess | amod |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kingdom | cc |
| 10 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 kingdom | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kingdom | det |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | conj |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 life | nummod |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 one | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not offer | present · passive | One | day | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal princess=Theme |
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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