Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 148

There was once a king, whose queen had hair of the purest gold, and was so beautiful that her match was not to be met with on the whole face of the earth.

Who acts: king, queen · What happens: be, have, not meet · To what, where: hair, match

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 queen	nmod:poss
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 king	acl:relcl
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 gold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gold	det
13	purest	pure	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 gold	amod
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hair	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beautiful	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beautiful	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 beautiful	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 beautiful	advmod
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 met	mark
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 match	nmod:poss
22	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 met	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 met	aux:pass
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 met	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	27 met	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 met	aux:pass
27	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 beautiful	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	32 face	case
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 face	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 face	det
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 face	amod
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 met	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 earth	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 earth	det
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 face	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a king		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	queen	hair of the purest gold			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	is	past				beautiful property	tree rules
4	not meet	past · passive		queen's match		with the whole face of the earth	vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme with face=Instrument

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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