Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 49
Hardly had he formed the wish than the marshal began, and said: ‘Your majesty, we live joyously here, but how is the queen living in the tower?
Who acts: king, marshal, we, queen · What happens: have, form, begin, say, live, be · To what, where: wish, queen, tower · 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 (king, marshal, we, queen), 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 formed | nsubj |
| 4 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wish | det |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 formed | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 began | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 marshal | det |
| 9 | marshal | marshal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wish | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 majesty | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 majesty | punct |
| 16 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 17 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 21 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 22 here | advmod |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 live | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 queen | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 queen | cc |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 queen | advmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 queen | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | parataxis |
| 29 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 queen | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 tower | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 tower | det |
| 32 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 living | obl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | hardly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | form | past | king | the wish | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the marshal | the wish not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | live | present | we | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | the queen | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | live | gerund | the queen not said here | the tower | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location |
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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