Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 10
And thus she had some joke to crack upon every one: but she laughed more than all at a good king who was there.
Who acts: maypole, good king · What happens: have, crack, laugh, be · To what, where: joke, more
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 (maypole, good king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 had | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 joke | det |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 crack | mark |
| 8 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 joke | acl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crack | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 laughed | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laughed | nsubj |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 laughed | obj |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 more | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 king | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 king | amod |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 there | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 there | cop |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 king | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | maypole | some joke | thus property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Patient | |||
| 2 | crack | to-infinitive | maypole not said here | some joke not said here | upon every one | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon one=Location | |||
| 3 | laugh | past | maypole | more | at a good king | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | a good king | there property | tree rules |
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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