Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 1

There was once a miller who had one beautiful daughter, and as she was grown up, he was anxious that she should be well married and provided for.

Who acts: miller, he · What happens: be, have, grow up, marry, provide · To what, where: one beautiful daughter, miller

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, he), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 miller	acl:relcl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 daughter	nummod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 daughter	amod
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 anxious	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 anxious	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 grown	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grown	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grown	aux:pass
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 anxious	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 grown	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grown	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 anxious	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 anxious	cop
21	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 married	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 married	nsubj:pass
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 married	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 married	aux:pass
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 married	advmod
27	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 anxious	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 provided	cc
29	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 married	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	29 provided	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a miller		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a miller	one beautiful daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	grow up	past · passive		miller			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	he			anxious property	tree rules
5	marry	should · passive		miller		well property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	provide	participle					vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition

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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