Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 64
But this queen died; and the king soon married another wife, who became queen, and was very beautiful, but so vain that she could not bear to think that anyone could be handsomer than she was.
Who acts: queen, king, wife, anyone · What happens: die, marry, become, be, not bear, think · To what, where: wife, queen
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, king, wife, anyone), 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 | _ | 4 died | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 married | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | nsubj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 married | advmod |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | conj |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 became | nsubj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wife | acl:relcl |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beautiful | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 died | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 vain | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 vain | cc |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 vain | advmod |
| 25 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 died | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 bear | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bear | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 bear | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 bear | advmod |
| 30 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 vain | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 think | mark |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 bear | xcomp |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 handsomer | mark |
| 34 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 handsomer | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 handsomer | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 handsomer | cop |
| 37 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 think | parataxis |
| 38 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 40 was | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 was | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 handsomer | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | this queen | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | marry | past | the king | another wife | soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 3 | become | past | another wife | queen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | this queen not said here | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not bear | could | queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | could | anyone | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | past | queen | 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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