Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 2

Although the little girl was very pretty, she was so weak and small that they thought she could not live; but they said she should at once be christened.

Who acts: little girl, girl, sons · What happens: be, think, not live, say, christen · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little girl, girl, sons), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	7 pretty	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pretty	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pretty	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 pretty	advmod
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	12 weak	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pretty	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 weak	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 weak	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 weak	advmod
12	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 small	cc
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weak	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 thought	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 weak	advcl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 live	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 live	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 live	advmod
21	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 weak	conj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 should	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 christened	obl
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 christened	aux:pass
31	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 said	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 weak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little girl	pretty property	tree rules
2	is	past	girl	weak property	tree rules
3	be		girl not said here		tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	sons = son		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not live	could	girl		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	sons = son		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	christen	infinitive · passive			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»

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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