Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 64
His son married the beautiful maiden whom he had brought with him as a flower in his pocket, and whether they are still alive or not, is known to God.
Who acts: son · What happens: marry, bring, be, know · To what, where: God
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), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 married | nsubj |
| 3 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 married | xcomp |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 maiden | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 flower | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flower | det |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pocket | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 18 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flower | nmod | ||
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 known | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 known | cc |
| 21 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 25 alive | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 alive | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 alive | cop |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 alive | advmod |
| 25 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 known | advcl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 not | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 alive | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 alive | punct |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 known | aux:pass |
| 30 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 married | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 God | case |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 known | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | grief's son | maiden property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | with grief; as a flower in grief's pocket | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | is | present | son | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | present · passive | grief's son not said here | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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