Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 8

Sorry as he was to see his wish so fulfilled, he did not know how what was done could be undone, and comforted himself as well as he could for the loss of his seven sons with his dear little daughter, who soon became stronger and every day more beautiful.

Who acts: Scarcely, dear little daughter · What happens: see, be, fulfil, not know, do, undo · To what, where: see wish, Scarcely · 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 (Scarcely, dear little 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	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 wish	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wish	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wish	compound
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wish	nmod:poss
8	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sorry	ccomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 fulfilled	advmod
10	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wish	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sorry	parataxis
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 done	advmod
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 done	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux:pass
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 know	ccomp
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 undone	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 undone	aux:pass
22	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 done	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 comforted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 comforted	cc
25	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 comforted	obj
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 well	advmod
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 comforted	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 could	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 well	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 loss	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 loss	det
34	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 could	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 sons	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 sons	nmod:poss
37	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 sons	nummod
38	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 loss	nmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	43 daughter	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 daughter	nmod:poss
41	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 daughter	amod
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 daughter	amod
43	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sons	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 became	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 became	nsubj
46	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 became	advmod
47	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 daughter	conj
48	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 became	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 beautiful	cc
50	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	51 day	det
51	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 beautiful	nsubj
52	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 beautiful	advmod
53	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 stronger	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	Scarcely	Scarcely's see wish		tree rules
3	fulfil	participle		Scarcely's see wish not said here		tree rules
4	not know	past · do-support	Scarcely			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	undo	could · passive				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»
7	comfort	past	Scarcely not said here	Scarcely	well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
8	become	past	Scarcely's dear little daughter		soon, strong property	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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