Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 103
And she could not bear to think that anyone lived who was more beautiful than she was; so she dressed herself up as an old pedlar, and went her way over the hills, to the place where the dwarfs dwelt.
Who acts: queen, anyone, dwarfs · What happens: not bear, think, live, be, dress up, go · To what, where: queen, way, hills · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (queen, anyone, dwarfs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bear | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bear | advmod |
| 5 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bear | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lived | mark |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | ccomp |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lived | ccomp |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 dressed | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 dressed | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dressed | nsubj |
| 21 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bear | parataxis |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 dressed | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 dressed | compound:prt |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 pedlar | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pedlar | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pedlar | amod |
| 27 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dressed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dressed | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 way | nmod:poss |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 hills | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hills | det |
| 35 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 went | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 place | punct |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 place | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 place | det |
| 39 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 dwelt | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 dwarfs | det |
| 42 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 dwelt | nsubj |
| 43 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 place | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | past | anyone | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | past | queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | dress up | past | queen | queen | as a old pedlar | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 7 | go | past | queen not said here | queen's way | the hills | to the place | tree rules | ||
| 8 | dwell | past | the dwarfs | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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