Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 28
And the dwarf married the youngest and the best of the princesses, and was king after her father’s death; but his two brothers married the other two sisters.
Who acts: dwarf, two brothers, father · What happens: marry, be, die · To what, where: youngest, king, other two sisters
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 (dwarf, two brothers, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 married | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | nsubj |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youngest | det |
| 6 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 married | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 best | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 youngest | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 princesses | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princesses | det |
| 12 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 best | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 king | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 king | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 king | cop |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 death | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 married | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 married | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 brothers | nummod |
| 26 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 married | nsubj |
| 27 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sisters | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sisters | amod |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 sisters | nummod |
| 31 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 married | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the dwarf | the youngest | after princess's father's death | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | marry | past | dwarf's two brothers | the other two sisters | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||||
| 4 | die | princess's father | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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