Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 16
The first tablet said: ‘In the wood, under the moss, lie the thousand pearls belonging to the king’s daughter; they must all be found: and if one be missing by set of sun, he who seeks them will be turned into marble.’
Who acts: first tablet, thousand pearls, one, man · What happens: say, lie, belong, find, be, seek · To what, where: thousand pearls, wood, tablets, marble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first tablet, thousand pearls, one, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tablet | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 tablet | amod |
| 3 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 lie | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 lie | punct |
| 7 | In | in | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lie | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 moss | punct |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 moss | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moss | det |
| 13 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wood | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wood | punct |
| 15 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thousand | det |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 pearls | nummod |
| 18 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lie | obj |
| 19 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 pearls | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 daughter | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 belonging | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 found | aux |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 found | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 found | aux:pass |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 seeks | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 seeks | cc |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 missing | mark |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 missing | nsubj |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 missing | cop |
| 36 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 seeks | advcl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 set | case |
| 38 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 missing | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sun | case |
| 40 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 set | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 missing | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 seeks | nsubj |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 seeks | nsubj |
| 44 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 turned | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 turned | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 turned | aux:pass |
| 48 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 seeks | acl:relcl |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 marble | case |
| 50 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 turned | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 seeks | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 seeks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first tablet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lie | infinitive | thousand pearls | the wood and the moss | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pearl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | thousand pearls not said here | to the king's daughter | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | must · passive | tablets = tablet | all property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | one | by set of sun; missing property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | seek | present | man | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | turn | future · passive | tablets = tablet | marble | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into marble=Trajectory |
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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