Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 33
She related to them all that had happened, and when the mother heard how she had come by her great riches, she thought she should like her ugly, lazy daughter to go and try her fortune.
Who acts: gate, that, mother · What happens: relate, happen, hear, come, think, like · To what, where: ’s, ugly lazy daughter, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, that, mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 related | nsubj |
| 2 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 related | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 happened | det:predet |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 related | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thought | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 heard | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mother | det |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thought | advcl |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 come | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 heard | ccomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 riches | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 riches | nmod:poss |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 riches | amod |
| 22 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 related | conj |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 like | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 like | aux |
| 28 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 daughter | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ugly | punct |
| 32 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 daughter | amod |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 like | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 like | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 try | cc |
| 37 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 go | conj |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 39 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 try | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | gate | ’s = ' | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | the mother | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | gate | by gate's great riches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rich=Location | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | gate | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | like | should | gate | gate's ugly lazy daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | gate not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | try | infinitive | gate not said here | gate's fortune | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality |
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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