Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 1
Long before you or I were born, there reigned, in a country a great way off, a king who had three sons.
Who acts: king · What happens: bear, reign, have · To what, where: you, country, three sons
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 born | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 born | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 I | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 you | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 born | aux:pass |
| 7 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reigned | punct |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 reigned | advmod |
| 10 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 born | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 country | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 off | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | off | off | ADV | _ | 14 country | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 king | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 country | appos |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 king | acl:relcl |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 sons | nummod |
| 25 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | you | long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reign | participle | a country; there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a king | three sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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