Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 41
Soon afterwards he came to a city, where a king ruled who had a daughter who was so serious that no one could make her laugh.
Who acts: seven, king, daughter, one, goose · What happens: come, rule, have, be, make, laugh · To what, where: city, daughter, goose
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven, king, daughter, one), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ruled | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 ruled | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ruled | nsubj |
| 12 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ruled | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 serious | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 serious | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 serious | advmod |
| 20 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 make | aux |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 serious | advcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | seven | a city | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rule | past | a king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | a daughter | serious property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | could | no one | goose | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | laugh | infinitive | goose not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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