Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 56
It happened once that the father was going to the fair, and asked his wife’s daughters what he should bring them.
Who acts: It, father · What happens: happen, go, ask, bring · To what, where: fair, daughters, sisters · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, father), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 happened | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 fair | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fair | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 wife | case |
| 18 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asked | obj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 bring | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bring | aux |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the father | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | father's wife's daughters | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring | should | father | sisters = sister | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme they=Destination |
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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