Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 9

For a long time she did not know that she had ever had any brothers; for her father and mother took care not to speak of them before her: but one day by chance she heard the people about her speak of them.

Who acts: daughter, one day · What happens: not know, have, take, not speak, hear · To what, where: brothers, care, people · 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 (daughter, one day), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 know	ccomp
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 brothers	det
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	conj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	parataxis
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 speak	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 speak	mark
26	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 took	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 speak	obl
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 speak	obl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 heard	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 heard	cc
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 day	nummod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heard	nsubj
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 chance	case
36	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 day	nmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 heard	nsubj
38	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 people	det
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 heard	obj
41	about	about	ADP	_	43 speak	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 speak	nmod:poss
43	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heard	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 speak	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	daughter		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past · perfect	daughter	any brothers	ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
3	take	past		care		for daughter's father and mother	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for father=Beneficiary
4	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive			before daughter	of brothers = brother	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	one day by chance	the people		about daughter's speak of brothers	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

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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