Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 3
Then an angel from heaven came to her and said: ‘Be at rest, you shall have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have.’
Who acts: angel, rest, power, that · What happens: come, say, be, have, wish · To what, where: her, rest, son, world · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (angel, rest, power, that), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 angel | det |
| 3 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 heaven | case |
| 5 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 angel | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 rest | punct |
| 13 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rest | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 rest | case |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rest | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 son | det |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 power | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 power | det |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obl |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 wishing | mark |
| 26 | wishing | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 power | acl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 whatsoever | punct |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 whatsoever | case |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 so | fixed |
| 30 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 19 have | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 world | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 whatsoever | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 wishes | nsubj |
| 35 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 world | acl:relcl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 wishes | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 have | punct |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 have | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 have | aux |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 have | nsubj |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 have | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a angel from heaven | her = she | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a angel from heaven not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | rest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | shall | rest | a son | with the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 5 | wish | gerund | the power not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | wish | present | rest | the world not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot world=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | shall | that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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