Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 1
A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples.
Who acts: certain king, tree · What happens: have, stand, bear · To what, where: beautiful garden, tree, garden, golden apples
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain king, tree), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 garden | amod |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bore | nsubj |
| 17 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tree | acl:relcl |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 apples | amod |
| 19 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bore | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a certain king | a beautiful garden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a certain king not said here | a tree | the garden | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in garden=Destination | |||
| 3 | bear | past | a tree | golden apples | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
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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