Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 11
Now it so happened that on this very day the queen lost her most beautiful ring, and suspicion of having stolen it fell upon this trusty servant, who was allowed to go everywhere.
Who acts: it, queen, suspicion, trusty servant · What happens: happen, lose, steal, fall, allow, go · To what, where: her, suspicion, trusty servant
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, queen, suspicion, trusty servant), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 lost | mark |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lost | obj |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ring | amod |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stolen | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stolen | cc |
| 19 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 stolen | mark |
| 21 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 stolen | aux |
| 22 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happened | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stolen | ccomp |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 servant | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 servant | det |
| 27 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 servant | amod |
| 28 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fell | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 allowed | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 allowed | aux:pass |
| 32 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 servant | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 allowed | xcomp |
| 35 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 34 go | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | the queen | her = she | day | tree rules | |||
| 3 | steal | gerund · perfect · passive | suspicion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | suspicion | this trusty servant | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon servant=Location | ||||
| 5 | allow | past · passive | this trusty servant | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | this trusty servant not said here | everywhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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