Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 13
The father said: ‘If it be possible, your desire shall be fulfilled,’ and he caused a search to be made in his whole kingdom, until eleven young maidens were found who exactly resembled his daughter in face, figure, and size.
Who acts: father, size, your · What happens: say, be, fulfil, cause, make, find · To what, where: desire, search, whole kingdom, eleven young maidens, daughter, face · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, size, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 possible | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 possible | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 possible | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 possible | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 possible | cop |
| 9 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fulfilled | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 desire | nmod:poss |
| 12 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fulfilled | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 15 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 possible | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fulfilled | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 possible | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 caused | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 caused | nsubj |
| 20 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 search | det |
| 22 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caused | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 search | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 kingdom | amod |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 31 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 found | mark |
| 32 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 maidens | nummod |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 maidens | amod |
| 34 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 found | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | aux:pass |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 caused | conj |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 resembled | nsubj |
| 38 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 39 resembled | advmod |
| 39 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | ccomp |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 41 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 resembled | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 face | case |
| 43 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 resembled | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 figure | punct |
| 45 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 face | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 size | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 size | cc |
| 48 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 resembled | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | size | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | shall · passive | your desire | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cause | past | father | a search | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition search=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive · passive | father not said here | a search not said here | father's whole kingdom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||
| 6 | find | past · passive | eleven young maidens | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | resemble | past | father's daughter | face | size obl; exactly property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | desire | your | nom desire «feeling transitive»: 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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