Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 1

There was once upon a time an old fox with nine tails, who believed that his wife was not faithful to him, and wished to put her to the test.

Who acts: nine tails, wife · What happens: be, believe, not be, wish, put · To what, where: fox, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nine tails, wife), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fox	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fox	amod
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tails	case
11	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 tails	nummod
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fox	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 believed	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 believed	nsubj
15	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tails	acl:relcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 faithful	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 faithful	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 faithful	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 faithful	advmod
21	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 believed	ccomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 faithful	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wished	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wished	cc
26	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wished	xcomp
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 test	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 test	det
32	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	believe	past	nine tails					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is	past	fox's wife	fox			faithful property	tree rules
4	wish	past						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	put not said to happen	to-infinitive		wife			to the test	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

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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