Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 2
The stepdaughter once had a pretty apron, which the other fancied so much that she became envious, and told her mother that she must and would have that apron.
Who acts: stepdaughter, other · What happens: have, fancy, become, tell · To what, where: pretty apron, mother, apron · 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 (stepdaughter, other), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stepdaughter | det |
| 2 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 apron | det |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 apron | amod |
| 7 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fancied | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 fancied | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 other | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fancied | nsubj |
| 12 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 apron | acl:relcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 became | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 became | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 became | nsubj |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fancied | advcl |
| 18 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 became | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 have | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 have | cc |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | ccomp |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 apron | det |
| 31 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the stepdaughter | a pretty apron | once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Patient | |||
| 2 | fancy | past | the other | a pretty apron | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | become | past | stepdaughter | envious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the stepdaughter not said here | stepdaughter's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | have | would | stepdaughter | that apron | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Patient |
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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