Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 149

But this beautiful queen fell ill, and when she felt that her end drew near she called the king to her and said, ‘Promise me that you will never marry again, unless you meet with a wife who is as beautiful as I am, and who has golden hair like mine.’

Who acts: beautiful queen, queen, end, you, wife · What happens: fall, feel, draw, call, say, promise · To what, where: king, end, me, golden hair · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (beautiful queen, queen, end, you), 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	_	5 fell	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 queen	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 queen	amod
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 felt	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 felt	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 drew	mark
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 end	nmod:poss
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drew	nsubj
15	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 felt	advcl
16	near	near	ADP	_	18 called	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	nsubj
18	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 drew	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 drew	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Promise	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 Promise	punct
27	Promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 Promise	obj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 marry	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 marry	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 marry	aux
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 marry	advmod
33	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Promise	advcl
34	again	again	ADV	_	33 marry	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 meet	punct
36	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	38 meet	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 meet	nsubj
38	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Promise	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 wife	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 wife	det
41	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 meet	obl
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 beautiful	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 beautiful	cop
44	as	as	ADV	_	45 beautiful	advmod
45	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 wife	acl:relcl
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 am	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 am	nsubj
48	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 beautiful	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 has	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 has	cc
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 has	nsubj
52	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 Promise	parataxis
53	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 hair	amod
54	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 has	obj
55	like	like	ADP	_	56 mine	case
56	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 has	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	this beautiful queen				ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past	queen					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	draw	past	queen's end					tree rules
4	call	past	queen	the king	end			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Topic to she=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past	queen's end not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	promise speech: promise	infinitive			me			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	not marry	future	you			again		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	meet a condition, not said to happen	present	you				with a wife	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wife=Co-Agent
9	is	present	a wife				beautiful property	tree rules
10	have	present		golden hair			like mine	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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