Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 24
It was to choose out the youngest and the best of the king’s three daughters.
Who acts: task · What happens: be
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 (task), 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 | 4 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 choose | mark |
| 4 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 choose | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youngest | det |
| 7 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 ’s | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 best | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 best | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 youngest | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 best | obl |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 choose | parataxis |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 daughters | nummod |
| 16 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ’s | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | task | choose property | tree rules |
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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