Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 40
But the princess knew nothing of making fires and cooking, and the fiddler was forced to help her.
Who acts: princess, fiddler · What happens: know, make, force, help · To what, where: nothing, fires, fiddler, princess
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 (princess, fiddler), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 knew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 making | mark |
| 7 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 nothing | acl |
| 8 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 making | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cooking | cc |
| 10 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fires | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forced | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fiddler | det |
| 14 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forced | aux:pass |
| 16 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 knew | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forced | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the princess | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | fires and cooking | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | |||||
| 3 | force | past · passive | the fiddler | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | the fiddler not said here | princess | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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