Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 97

The king had promised that he who would venture should have his daughter to wife, and she was the most beautiful maiden the sun shone on.

Who acts: king, latter, sun · What happens: promise, venture, have, be, shine on · To what, where: daughter, beautiful maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, latter, sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	aux
4	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 venture	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 venture	aux
9	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 he	acl:relcl
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 wife	mark
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 daughter	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 maiden	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 maiden	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 maiden	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 maiden	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 maiden	det
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 beautiful	advmod
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 maiden	amod
23	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obl:unmarked
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sun	det
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shone	nsubj
26	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 maiden	acl:relcl
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 shone	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	the king		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	venture	would			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	have	should	king	king's daughter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	is a	past	latter	the beautiful maiden	tree rules
5	shine on	past	the sun	the beautiful maiden not said here	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme

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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