Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 2
Every morning she went into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter.
Who acts: she · What happens: go, pray, bestow · To what, where: garden, God, heaven, son
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 (she), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prayed | cc |
| 9 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 God | case |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 prayed | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 heaven | case |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prayed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bestow | mark |
| 15 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prayed | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bestow | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 son | det |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bestow | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 daughter | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 daughter | det |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | she | the garden | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pray | past | she not said here | God | heaven | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | bestow | to-infinitive | she not said here | a son or a daughter | on her = she | 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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