Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 3

Now it was no easy task to find a rose, for it was the middle of winter; yet as she was his prettiest daughter, and was very fond of flowers, her father said he would try what he could do.

Who acts: third, Lily, father · What happens: be, find, say, try, do · To what, where: easy task, rose, prettiest daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, Lily, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 task	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 task	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 task	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 task	det
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 task	amod
6	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 task	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rose	det
10	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 middle	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 middle	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 middle	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 middle	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 winter	case
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 middle	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 daughter	punct
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	26 daughter	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 daughter	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 daughter	cop
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 daughter	amod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 task	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fond	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fond	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fond	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 fond	advmod
31	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 daughter	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 flowers	case
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fond	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 daughter	conj
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 try	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 try	aux
40	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 said	ccomp
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 do	obj
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 do	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 do	aux
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 try	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 task	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	third	no easy task and father's prettiest daughter	now		tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		a rose			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Topic
3	is	past	third		winter	for the middle	tree rules
4	is a	past	Lily	father's prettiest daughter	yet		tree rules
5	is	past	Lily not said here			of flowers; fond property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	Lily's father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	try	would	father				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	do not said to happen	could	father				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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