Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 81

When the first joy at their meeting was over, the princess told him she had heard of his father having forgiven him, and of his wish to have him home again: so, before his wedding with the princess, he went to visit his father, taking her with him.

Who acts: first joy, princess, father, forest · What happens: be, tell, hear, have, forgive, go · To what, where: forest, father, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (first joy, princess, father, forest), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	9 over	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 joy	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 joy	amod
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 over	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 meeting	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 meeting	nmod:poss
7	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 joy	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 over	cop
9	over	over	ADV	_	13 told	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 over	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 told	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
21	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 father	acl
22	forgiven	forgive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 having	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 forgiven	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wish	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wish	cc
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 wish	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wish	nmod:poss
28	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wish	acl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 have	obj
32	home	home	ADV	_	30 have	advmod
33	again	again	ADV	_	30 have	advmod
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 went	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	45 went	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wedding	punct
37	before	before	ADP	_	39 wedding	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wedding	nmod:poss
39	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 princess	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 princess	det
42	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wedding	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 wedding	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 went	nsubj
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	parataxis
46	to	to	PART	_	47 visit	mark
47	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 went	xcomp
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 father	nmod:poss
49	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 visit	obj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 taking	punct
51	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 went	advcl
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 taking	obj
53	with	with	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 taking	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the first joy at husband's meeting				over property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the princess		forest			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hear	past · perfect	princess				of forest's father	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of father=Stimulus
4	have	gerund	forest's father not said here					tree rules
5	forgive	participle	forest's father not said here	forest				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	have	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	forest		again	home property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	go	past	forest			before forest's wedding with the princess		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	visit	to-infinitive	forest not said here	forest's father				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent
9	take	gerund	forest not said here		princess		with forest	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
10	wish		forest					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
11	wed		forest				with the princess	nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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