Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 1
There was once upon a time a woman who was a real witch and had two daughters, one ugly and wicked, and this one she loved because she was her own daughter, and one beautiful and good, and this one she hated, because she was her stepdaughter.
Who acts: one, woman · What happens: be, have, love, hate · To what, where: real witch, two daughters, one ugly one, own daughter, stepdaughter
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, woman), 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 witch | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 witch | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 witch | amod |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 daughters | nummod |
| 17 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 one | nummod |
| 20 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 one | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wicked | cc |
| 22 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ugly | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 one | cc |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughters | appos |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 loved | nsubj |
| 28 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | acl:relcl |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 daughter | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 daughter | cop |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 daughter | amod |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loved | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 one | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 one | cc |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 was | nsubj |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 one | amod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 good | cc |
| 40 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 beautiful | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 hated | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 hated | cc |
| 43 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 one | det |
| 44 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hated | nsubj |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 hated | nsubj |
| 46 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 one | advcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 stepdaughter | punct |
| 48 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 52 stepdaughter | mark |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 stepdaughter | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 stepdaughter | cop |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 52 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hated | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | past | a woman | a real witch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | one not said here | two daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | love | past | woman | this one ugly one not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | woman | woman's own daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hate | past | this one | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | woman | woman's stepdaughter | tree rules |
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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