Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 2
And when she had grown up her father said: ‘We will get her married.’
Who acts: daughter, father, We · What happens: grow up, say, get, marry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, father, We), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grown | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 grown | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 12 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 married | nmod:poss |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 get | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · perfect | daughter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | daughter's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | future | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | marry | participle | We not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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