Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 1
There was once upon a time a queen to whom God had given no children.
Who acts: God · What happens: be, give · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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=Sing 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 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | appos |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 queen | nmod |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 given | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | God | no children | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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