Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 4
But the girl did not care for the man as a girl ought to care for her betrothed husband.
Who acts: girl · What happens: not care, care, betroth
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 (girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 care | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 care | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 care | advmod |
| 6 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 care | obl |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 care | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 care | nsubj |
| 13 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 care | aux |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 care | mark |
| 15 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 care | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 husband | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 husband | amod |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 care | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | the girl | for the man | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | care | ought | a girl | for girl's betrothed husband | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for husband=Theme | ||||
| 3 | betroth | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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