Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 4
Then she went to the king, and told him the joyful tidings, and when the time was come she gave birth to a son, and the king was filled with gladness.
Who acts: angel, time · What happens: go, tell, be, give, fill · To what, where: joyful tidings, birth, son, king · 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, time), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tidings | det |
| 12 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tidings | amod |
| 13 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 come | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | cop |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | parataxis |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | conj |
| 23 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 son | det |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 filled | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 filled | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 filled | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 filled | aux:pass |
| 32 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 gladness | case |
| 34 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 filled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | angel | then | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | angel not said here | the joyful tidings | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tiding=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the time | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past | angel | birth | a son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=Recipient | |||
| 5 | fill | past · passive | the king | with gladness | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gladness=Instrument |
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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