Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 72
‘Thou, queen, art fair, and beauteous to see, But Snowdrop is lovelier far than thee!’
Who acts: Thou · What happens: see, be
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 (Thou), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thou | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 lovelier | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thou | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fair | punct |
| 6 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fair | compound |
| 7 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beauteous | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beauteous | cc |
| 10 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fair | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beauteous | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lovelier | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 lovelier | cc |
| 15 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lovelier | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lovelier | cop |
| 17 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 lovelier | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 thee | case |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 far | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 lovelier | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 lovelier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | Thou not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Thou | far, lovely property | 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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