Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 42
When the true bride heard that, it hurt her so much that her heart was almost broken, and she fell fainting to the ground.
Who acts: true bride, liking, bride · What happens: hear, hurt, break, fall, faint · To what, where: that, bride, heart
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 (true bride, liking, bride), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bride | det |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bride | amod |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hurt | nsubj |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hurt | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 broken | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 broken | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 broken | aux:pass |
| 17 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 18 broken | advmod |
| 18 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hurt | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | conj |
| 23 | fainting | faint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fainting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the true bride | that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hurt | past | liking | bride | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | bride's heart | almost property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | bride | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | faint | gerund | bride not said here | to the ground | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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