Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 25

Now they were all beautiful, and all exactly alike: but he was told that the eldest had eaten a piece of sugar, the next some sweet syrup, and the youngest a spoonful of honey; so he was to guess which it was that had eaten the honey.

Who acts: kings, all, next, castle · What happens: be, tell, eat, syrup · To what, where: castle, eldest, honey · 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 (kings, all, next, castle), 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	5 beautiful	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 beautiful	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beautiful	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 beautiful	advmod
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 alike	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 alike	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 alike	nsubj
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 alike	advmod
10	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beautiful	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux:pass
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 beautiful	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 eaten	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 eldest	det
18	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 eaten	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 eaten	aux
20	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 told	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 piece	det
22	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eaten	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 sugar	case
24	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 piece	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 syrup	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 next	det
27	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 syrup	nsubj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 syrup	det
29	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 syrup	amod
30	syrup	syrup	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 piece	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 youngest	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 youngest	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 youngest	det
34	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 eaten	parataxis
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spoonful	det
36	spoonful	spoonful	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 youngest	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 honey	case
38	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spoonful	nmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 guess	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	44 guess	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 guess	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 guess	cop
43	to	to	PART	_	44 guess	mark
44	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beautiful	conj
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 eaten	nsubj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 eaten	nsubj:pass
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 eaten	aux:pass
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 eaten	mark
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 eaten	aux
50	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 guess	ccomp
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 honey	det
52	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 eaten	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	kings = king		now	all, beautiful property	tree rules
2	be		all			exactly property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		castle			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	eat	past · perfect · passive		the eldest			tree rules
5	syrup		the next				tree rules
6	is	past	castle			guess property	tree rules
7	eat	past · perfect · passive		the honey			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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