Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 9
His first betrothed heard of this, and fretted so much about his faithfulness that she nearly died.
Who acts: news · What happens: hear, fret, die · To what, where: first, faithfulness
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 (news), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 first | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | betrothed | betroth | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux:pass |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fretted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fretted | cc |
| 9 | fretted | fret | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 fretted | advmod |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 faithfulness | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 faithfulness | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faithfulness | faithfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fretted | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 died | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 died | nsubj |
| 17 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 18 died | advmod |
| 18 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 faithfulness | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | son's first | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fret | participle | about son's faithfulness | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | die | past | news | son's faithfulness not said here | nearly property | tree rules |
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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