Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 16
Then the king’s son wished for one, and she immediately stood before him, and was more beautiful than any painter could have painted her.
Who acts: son, girl · What happens: wish, stand, be, paint · To what, where: painter
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 (son, girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 wished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 wished | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wished | conj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beautiful | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beautiful | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 beautiful | cop |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stood | parataxis |
| 21 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 painted | mark |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 painter | det |
| 23 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 painted | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 painted | aux |
| 26 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 beautiful | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 painted | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the king's son | then | for one | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for one=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | girl | before king | immediately property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | paint | could · perfect · passive | any painter | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient she=Result |
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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