Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 1
A great king of a land far away in the East had a daughter who was very beautiful, but so proud, and haughty, and conceited, that none of the princes who came to ask her in marriage was good enough for her, and she only made sport of them.
Who acts: great king, daughter, princes, none, she · What happens: have, be, come, ask, make, sport · To what, where: daughter, East, her, marriage, sport
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great king, daughter, princes, none), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 East | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 East | det |
| 11 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 beautiful | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 beautiful | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 proud | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 proud | cc |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 proud | advmod |
| 22 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 had | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 haughty | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 haughty | cc |
| 25 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 proud | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 conceited | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 conceited | cc |
| 28 | conceited | conceited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 proud | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 good | punct |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 none | det |
| 31 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 43 good | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 princes | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 princes | det |
| 34 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 none | nmod |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 princes | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 ask | mark |
| 38 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 came | xcomp |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 ask | iobj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 marriage | case |
| 41 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ask | obl |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 good | cop |
| 43 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 proud | conj |
| 44 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 43 good | advmod |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 good | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 made | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 made | cc |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 made | nsubj |
| 50 | only | only | ADV | _ | 51 made | advmod |
| 51 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | conj |
| 52 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 made | obj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 them | case |
| 54 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 sport | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a great king of a land | a daughter | the East | away property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | past | a daughter | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the princes | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the princes not said here | her = she | marriage | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is | past | none | for her = she; enough, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | past | she | sport of princes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Product | ||||
| 7 | sport | princes = prince | nom sport «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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