Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 11

Then she was much grieved, and went to her father and mother, and asked if she had any brothers, and what had become of them.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: grieve, go, ask, have, become · To what, where: daughter, brothers

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 grieved	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grieved	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grieved	aux:pass
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 grieved	advmod
5	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grieved	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 father	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mother	cc
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 father	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 asked	ccomp
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 brothers	det
21	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 become	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 become	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 become	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 become	aux
26	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 grieved	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 become	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		daughter	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	go	past				to daughter's father and mother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	daughter	any brothers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
5	become	past · perfect				of brothers = brother	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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